Kid Pink and the Maharajah (1914)

• 84%
• 1914
• Comedy
• Western
• Edward LeSaint
• Guy Oliver
• Al W. Filson
• Bessie Eyton

A serio-comic tale shows wherein the East and the West strangely mingle despite Kipling's declaration that: "Never the twain shall meet." Sim Bowie, a pompous sheriff of a frontier county, is anxious to capture Kid Pink, a notorious outlaw who has recently despoiled the Silver Gulch Bank. Sim, however, is fonder of sitting in a swivel chair, spitting at a mark, and swapping yarns with the boys than he is of risking his well-groomed hide in the haunts of the outlaws. He posts a notice of a thousand dollar reward for Kid, dead or alive. About this time Kid sends in a written taunt to the sheriff and his deputies, defying him to take him. This does not move Sim, but the deputies take to the trail. They follow Kid where he has fallen over a "bluff and been killed. In the interim, the stage arrives in town, bearing a passenger, Jaswant Singe, an East Indian. Sim entertains the visitor in his office in great state. They take copious libations of fuel-oil and the Hindu launches forth into a description of the grandeurs of the land in which he is a Maharajah, and gives Sim a book on Reincarnation. Sim, as thoroughly loaded with this information as he is with whiskey, falls asleep and dreams that be has died and his soul has been transmigrated into somebody in that far land. In his wanderings, he visits a city where is located Kid Pink, his ancient enemy. Here he goes through some dire and dangerous experiences until he finally wakes when the posse brings in the body of the notorious outlaw, so that he has nothing to do but expand his chest to celebrate some more.