Sudden Jim (1917)
Drama | 22 July 1917
The 16 June 1917 Moving Picture World reported that director Schertzinger, Charles Ray, Sylvia Bremer, and a company of twenty people returned to Culver City that week from Felton, CA, "where they have filmed the principal scenes of Sudden Jim....A trestle, nine hundred feet long and eighty feet high, in places, which has been abandoned by a lumber camp, was turned over to the Triangle-Ince players for destruction. Three hundred pounds of dynamite and black powder was used in blowing up this trestle for an important scene in this story, and it has proven the most realistic scene of its kind ever produced."
TThe National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021. ...
The 16 June 1917 Moving Picture World reported that director Schertzinger, Charles Ray, Sylvia Bremer, and a company of twenty people returned to Culver City that week from Felton, CA, "where they have filmed the principal scenes of Sudden Jim....A trestle, nine hundred feet long and eighty feet high, in places, which has been abandoned by a lumber camp, was turned over to the Triangle-Ince players for destruction. Three hundred pounds of dynamite and black powder was used in blowing up this trestle for an important scene in this story, and it has proven the most realistic scene of its kind ever produced."
TThe National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.
"Clothes Pin" Jimmy Ashe decides that the time for him to retire has come and so offers to turn his clothes pin manufacturing plant over to his son. At first Jimmy, Jr. hesitates, but when he does decide to take over the business, he does so with a will to make good. Opposition is thrown in his path by Moran, a crooked businessman and financial power in the town of Diversity. When Moran attempts to ruin Jimmy's business by refusing to honor his lumber contract, he meets resistance that he has not foreseen. Jimmy, joined by his men, takes possession of the one-track railroad and refuse to relinquish it until they get the lumber. Thus Jimmy proves his mettle and saves the ...
"Clothes Pin" Jimmy Ashe decides that the time for him to retire has come and so offers to turn his clothes pin manufacturing plant over to his son. At first Jimmy, Jr. hesitates, but when he does decide to take over the business, he does so with a will to make good. Opposition is thrown in his path by Moran, a crooked businessman and financial power in the town of Diversity. When Moran attempts to ruin Jimmy's business by refusing to honor his lumber contract, he meets resistance that he has not foreseen. Jimmy, joined by his men, takes possession of the one-track railroad and refuse to relinquish it until they get the lumber. Thus Jimmy proves his mettle and saves the company.
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