Sophie of the Films #4 (1914)

• 65%
• 1914
• Comedy
• Al Christie
• Victoria Forde
• Eddie Lyons
• Lee Moran

Thus far Sophie has failed completely as a motion picture actress. She has spoiled every scene, but through the general manager she is to be given one more chance. She is sent to the border to act in Mexican war pictures. The director has no appetite for real war so he hires a band of cowboys to impersonate first the border guards and then the Mexican soldiery. They then begin to enact a series of blood-curdling melodrama of fearful massacre and carnage. Mexican girls mistake what is going on for a real American invasion and General Wienerwurst, the Mexican commander, is notified. Wienerwurst and his command make war upon the motion picture people and another beautiful feature is ruined. The actors and director barely escape with their lives. When they finally arrive at the studio, poor Sophie is fired. She returns to the old homestead. Her sorrow is lessened, however, when she is given her old job in a laundry. It is said that forever after she never grew weary of recalling the days when she was a leading lady.