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A Timely Interception
UNITED STATES · 1913

A Timely Interception

D.W. Griffith
financial hardship family sacrifice oil industry land dispute class struggle
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Synopsis

A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired from his job on the oil rig, the wedding must be postponed and the money put to the more pressing need. The farmer, now himself destitute, is forced to put his house up for sale to repay his creditors. Meanwhile, a man from the oil syndicate discovers oil on the farmer's land. Moving quickly, the syndi

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