That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)
In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in a California mining town, Charlie is tormented by local men but is finally befriended by a young woman and her cowboy sweetheart. One of Charlie’s tormentors is a well-dressed idler and, secretly, a bandit who robs the mail. The cowboy and the bandit become rivals for the girl’s affections. Suspicious of the bandit, Charlie follows him, observes him robbing a mail-carrier, and contrives to capture him, cutting off his pigtail to bind the bandit. Rewarded for the bandit’s capture, but disgraced in his own eyes for dishonouring his family, Charlie gives the cash reward to the young couple and surreptitiously leaves Golden Gulch.
Director: D.W. Griffith
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Anthony O'Sullivan as Charley Lee |
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W. Chrystie Miller as Charley's Friend |
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Francis J. Grandon as Charley's Friend |
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Gertrude Robinson as Miss Dean |
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Dell Henderson as Gentleman Jim Dandy |
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Edward Dillon as The Mail Carrier |
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Kate Bruce as Extra |
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Alfred Paget as Cowboy |
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Mary Pickford as |
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Charles West as Bud Miller |
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William J. Butler as Cowboy |
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John T. Dillon as Cowboy |
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Guy Hedlund as Cowboy |
| Directing | D.W. Griffith | Director |
| Writing | Emmett C. Hall | Writer |
| Crew | Billy Bitzer | Cinematography |