The Sheriff's Dilemma

Dismissed from the church because of his seemingly undue intimacy with the schoolteacher, the young minister becomes an evangelist and, after an incident in which he thrashes the drunken sheriff, is appointed sheriff by the mayor. In the girl's home he sees a picture of her father, whom he recognizes as identical with that on a circular calling for the arrest of Idaho Mac, a notorious desperado. He promises the girl that he will never use his gun against her father, but sends his deputy, the ex-sheriff, to apprehend Idaho Mac at the border. The bandit, badly wounded by the deputy's bullets, reaches his daughter's house, and she thinks the sheriff false to his word.

Claire McDowell

Molly

Harry Carey

The Sheriff

Charles West

The Minister

Release date

April 2, 1915

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

10m

Rated

NR

Genres

Western

• The Showdown

  1923

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  A Fight For Love

  1919

• 

  Gun Law

  1919

• The Deputy's Chance That Won

  1915

• The Terror of the Mountains

  1915

• A Matrimonial Boomerang

  1915

• The Secret Lode

  1914

• 

  The Bar-C Mystery

  1926

• The Woman

  1913

• The Rim of the Desert

  1915

• The Lucky Shot

  1914

• The Miner's Peril

  1914