Summary
In "Love's Reward," a tempestuous hotelier, driven to ire by the meddling "Hawkshaw" of his establishment, summarily dismisses his fresh-faced clerk. The young man's transgression? An ill-advised dalliance, or perhaps merely a perceived flirtation, with the proprietor's cherished daughter. Yet, fate, with its capricious hand, orchestrates a dramatic return. The spurned suitor, now a determined Romeo, attempts a clandestine elopement, scaling the hotel's façade via a water pipe. This audacious act of romantic rebellion unexpectedly positions him as the fortuitous savior when two nefarious villains, having pilfered the hotel safe, menace the proprietor with a dynamite-laden demise. With timely intervention, the erstwhile clerk thwarts the nefarious plot, securing not only the landlord's life but also, rather quaintly, the "daughter's" affections – a reward whose nature, be it a human hand or a more literal "paw," injects a touch of whimsical ambiguity into the film's resolution.
Synopsis
The irate proprietor of a hotel discharges his hotel clerk after the "Hawkshaw" of the inn tells him the young upstart is flirting with his daughter. But when the young fellow returns and scales a water pipe to elope with the daughter, he is the ready-made hero at hand to save the landlord from being blown up with dynamite by two villains who had robbed the hotel safe. And then he is suitably rewarded with the hand, or is it the paw, of the "daughter."
Director
Len Powers
