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Juan and Juanita

1912 · 12 min Western
4.0 / 10 · TMDB

Juan leaves for Rawlins, Arizona, where he wants to find a job so he can marry his fiancee Juanita, because Juanita's mother says a man must have quite substantial savings before he can marry her daughter. Juan takes a job with the railways. When a former employee raids the money train on which Juan is working, he manages to escape with the aid of a trolley, as a result of which the attack can be thwarted. For his courageous act Juan gets two thousand guilders as a reward.

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📋 Film Details

Year 1912
Country United States of America
Genre Western
Director Wilbert Melville
Runtime 12 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.0/10 (1 votes)

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The film constructs a classic western dilemma between personal ambition and duty, relying on the railroad as both a symbol of progress and peril.

What lingers after the thrilling trolley escape is the satisfaction of a modest hero’s ingenuity being rewarded, paving his way home. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Wilbert Melville

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