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Director
  
Paul Powell

Country
  
United States

Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Release date
  
August 20, 1916 (1916-08-20)

Hell-to-Pay Austin is a 1916 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Wilfred Lucas in the title role, along with Bessie Love, Eugene Pallette and Mary Alden. It was accompanied by the Charles Chaplin short comedy One A.M. in some theaters during its initial theatrical release.

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Written by Mary H. O'Connor, the film was produced by D. W. Griffith's production company Fine Arts, and was distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation. Hell-to-Pay Austin is now presumed lost.

Plot

When a minister dies from alcoholism, his daughter Briar Rose (Bessie Love) is unofficially adopted by a team of lumberjacks, including the rough-and-tumble 'Hell-to-Pay' Austin (Wilfred Lucas). The child's innocence and purity eventually transform Austin into an upstanding Christian. Briar goes away to boarding school and Austin has to come to her rescue when she falls in with the wrong crowd. Reunited, they discover that their guardian/ward relationship has evolved into one of true love and they marry.

Cast

  • Wilfred Lucas as Hell-to-Pay Austin
  • Bessie Love as Briar Rose Dawson
  • Ralph Lewis as Dad Dawson
  • Mary Alden as Doris Valentine
  • Eugene Pallette as Harry Tracey
  • James O'Shea as Jack Dale
  • Clyde E. Hopkins as Daniel Marston
  • Marie Wilkinson as Old Sallie
  • Allan Sears (as A.D. Sears) as Fred
  • William H. Brown as Peter
  • Tom Wilson as Bill
  • Monte Blue as Bit Part (uncredited)

    • References

    Hell-to-Pay Austin Wikipedia
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    Hell to Pay Austin IMDb


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