Overview

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.

Top Cast

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Anthony O'Sullivan

Charley Lee

W. Chrystie Miller

Charley's Friend

Francis J. Grandon

Charley's Friend

Gertrude Robinson

Miss Dean

Dell Henderson

Gentleman Jim Dandy

Edward Dillon

The Mail Carrier

Kate Bruce

Extra

Alfred Paget

Cowboy

Mary Pickford

Charles West

Bud Miller

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William J. Butler

Cowboy

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John T. Dillon

Cowboy