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The Kick Out (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

The Kick Out (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

The people's interest tremble in the hands of a Mayor, cunningly entrapped by a city boss. The "Clarion,"' an insignificant daily paper, champions the people's cause, and its enthusiastic editor, Mark Evans, sustains the Mayor, and wins ...See moreThe people's interest tremble in the hands of a Mayor, cunningly entrapped by a city boss. The "Clarion,"' an insignificant daily paper, champions the people's cause, and its enthusiastic editor, Mark Evans, sustains the Mayor, and wins his daughter, Edna. The pending gas bill involves the poor seriously while the big railroad deal means the selling of a city's rights to the profit of the boss and the grafters. The Clarion editor, playing the part of a detective, secures the facts of the deal; the Mayor's daughter is game in the fight, the Clarion sounds its challenge to the city robbers, and a fight begins. The Mayor unconsciously walks into an open trap, the railroad deal is successfully laid to him, false affidavits are secured and the Mayor's downfall seems assured. The stenographer for the boss, suffering because of her father's abuse through the cunning of the railroad men who are profiting by the boss' craftiness, turns against the boss, secures valuable papers and places them in the hands of the Clarion editor, furnishing facts for the big fight. Trouble follows the supposed doubtful relations between the Clarion editor and the boss' stenographer, resulting in the breaking of the engagement between the Mayor's daughter and the editor, and presaging his downfall in the estimation of the people of the city. The loss of the valuable papers of the boss and the disappearance of the stenographer demand severe measures and "tools" are engaged, through whom the boss secures the papers again as the Clarion editor is assaulted and his safe robbed. Facing a lawsuit and ruin, the Clarion editor continues to seek new evidence, and in his strong defense of the Mayor, wins back the hand of the Mayor's daughter. The Clarion editor and a detective follow the boss' "tools," who are escaping from the city; the editor follows the one who goes by train, the detective follows the other in an automobile. An exciting race follows. The train is wrecked, the Clarion editor rescues one "tool" from the wreck in a dying condition while the detective catches the other "tool" and brings him to the scene of the wreck. The dying "tool" of the boss confesses; his pal turns state's evidence. The boss gloats over his triumph; the Mayor trembles before gathering mobs who believe he has sold the city, while news reaches the boss of the forthcoming edition of the Clarion, containing a confession of the dying "tool." The boss orders the wrecking of the Clarion office. The Mayor's daughter is helping the old printer, and the Clarion editor is struggling to get back to the office. The entire office is wrecked, but the cunning printer had hid the chases with the story. The editor reaches the scene in his automobile, the press is intact, chases secured, the automobile hacked up to the side of the office, and through a hole chopped in the wall ropes are attached and the automobile engine runs the press, bringing out the edition which is the means of the "kick out" of the boss, the saving of the city, the restoration of the Mayor to public confidence, and the happy culmination of the editor's romance with the Mayor's daughter. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Ralph Stuart The Mayor The Mayor See fewer	The Mystery of the Double Cross (1917)
Helen Case The Mayor's Daughter The Mayor's Daughter See fewer	The Adventures of Ruth (1919)