The Angel of Contention

1914

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Lillian Gish in The Angel of Contention (1914)

Nettie is beloved by all the boys in the mining camp. Magoon, a big, jovial miner, loves her most of all, however, and asks her to become his wife. Nettie is in love with Colter, a young Eas... Read allNettie is beloved by all the boys in the mining camp. Magoon, a big, jovial miner, loves her most of all, however, and asks her to become his wife. Nettie is in love with Colter, a young Easterner, and though it pains her to do so, tells Magoon of the fact. Magoon leaves town to ... Read allNettie is beloved by all the boys in the mining camp. Magoon, a big, jovial miner, loves her most of all, however, and asks her to become his wife. Nettie is in love with Colter, a young Easterner, and though it pains her to do so, tells Magoon of the fact. Magoon leaves town to become sheriff of the adjoining county. A murder is committed in the mining camp, and Colt... Read all

Director
- John B. O'Brien
Writers
- Will Levington Comfort
- George Pattullo
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Director
- John B. O'Brien
Writers
- Will Levington Comfort
- George Pattullo
Stars

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The padding is almost all in the second reel

With Lillian Gish as the Angel, this two-part picture works up a situation with sharp, bold strokes that lay the whole inner meaning of it all quite bare to us. But then in the development one feels a distinct lessening of clearness and truth of meaning. The building up is far more convincing than the development and the padding is almost all in the second reel. The people of the Western village call Lillian "the Angel," because she has tended them in their troubles like one, and later, when the stranger comes and takes her away from the sheriff, a fiancé whom she really doesn't love, they refuse to take kindly to him. How this gets him into danger and how the magnanimous sheriff and the angel save him make an acceptable offering. The staging, acting and camera work are all good. - The Moving Picture World, July 18, 1914