Algie The Miner (1912) - THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

Algie The Miner (1912)

Director :

Alice Guy
Harry Schenc
Edward Warren

Cast :

Billy Quirk - Algie Allmore
Mary Foy - Society Dowager

Algie, the Miner is a 1912 film directed by Harry Schenck, Edward Warren, and Alice Guy and starring Billy Quirk.

Plot

In this 10-minute film short, Algie Allmore, a city boy with suspicious behaviors like giving cowboys kisses on their lips and dressing different, is given only one year to prove that he’s the man to marry Harry Lyons’s daughter.

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