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Heartbroken Shep (1913) [NR]

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Featuring:
Helene Costello, Arthur Ashley, Louise Beaudet

Written by:
Nolan Gane

Directed by:
L. Rogers Lytton, James Young


Release Date:
October 9, 1913

Original Title:
Heartbroken Shep

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Vitagraph Company of America

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 11

Overview from TheMovieDB

Brought into contact with each other, Runa and Shep, a dog, become great chums. Their companionship is looked upon with evident interest and amusement by Runa's parents, who do not seem to be very greatly concerned for their daughter's childish affairs, leaving that entirely to her nurse.

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Brought into contact with each other, Runa and Shep, a dog, become great chums. Their companionship is looked upon with evident interest and amusement by Runa's parents, who do not seem to be very greatly concerned for their daughter's childish affairs, leaving that entirely to her nurse. One day the parents go away. The nurse, after having put Runa in her bed, goes downstairs, and there begins to carry on a flirtation with the tinsmith, who is working on the roof. The tinsmith, greatly interested, comes down and joins Runa and they go off for a walk, the tinsmith ignorant that he spilled some live coals from his fire pot before he left the roof. Shep, sleeping in the yard, discovers the smoke, and running to the firehouse, leads the firemen back and guides them into Runa's room. Here, by some accident, Shep is shut in. He tries vainly to get out of the room. Finally he succeeds, by way of a ladder, in getting to the window and getting into Runa's room, and tries to drag her out of danger. As Runa is carried from the blazing house her parents arrive. Amazed at seeing the house in flames, they run to ascertain Runa's safety. This having been satisfactorily accomplished, their attention is attracted to Shep. They call him, but he does not respond. Runa calls and Shep jumps from the window. When he reaches the ground he is fatally hurt, and dies a hero.

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Director:
James Young
L. Rogers Lytton

Story:
Nolan Gane

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