Pay Dirt

50 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent film
(English intertitles)

Pay Dirt is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Henry King and starring himself, Marguerite Nichols, Gordon Sackville, Mollie McConnell, Daniel Gilfether, and Charles Dudley. The film was released by General Film Company on June 18, 1916.^[1][2][3]

A young miner known as "The Easterner" struggles with a gambling habit despite the efforts of Moll, a camp woman who turns out to be his mother. He becomes romantically involved with Kate Gardner, who learns that her father and a gambler are plotting to steal the Easterner's mining claim. After a series of dramatic events, including a fight where Kate's father is revealed as a thief, Kate discovers that a half-wit named Oby is her real father. In the end, Kate marries the Easterner.

• Henry King as The Easterner
• Marguerite Nichols as Kate Gardner
• Gordon Sackville as Peter Gardner
• Mollie McConnell as Moll
• Daniel Gilfether as Dick Weed
• Charles Dudley as Oby
• Philo McCullough as Turner
• Ruth White as Doris Wendell
• Bruce Smith as Doris's Father

A print of the film survives at the Library of Congress.^[4]

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