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Hell-to-Pay Austin is a american film of genre Drama directed by Paul Powell released in USA on 20 august 1916 with Wilfred Lucas
Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916)
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Add to a movie listHell-to-Pay Austin is a 1916 American silent film directed by Paul Powell and starring Wilfred Lucas in the title role, along with Bessie Love, Eugene Pallette and Mary Alden. It was accompanied by the Charles Chaplin short comedy One A.M. in some theaters during its initial theatrical release.
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Film: 1911–20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
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When a minister dies from alcoholism, his daughter Briar Rose is unofficially adopted by a team of lumberjacks, including the rough-and-tumble 'Hell-to-Pay' Austin. The child's innocence and purity eventually transform Austin into an upstanding Christian. Briar goes away to boarding school and Austin has to come to her rescue when she falls in with the wrong crowd. Reunited, they discover that their guardian/ward relationship has evolved into one of true love and they marry.Actors
Wilfred Lucas
(Hell-to-Pay Austin)
Bessie Love
(Briar Rose Dawson)
Eugene Pallette
(Harry Tracey)
Ralph Lewis
(Dad Dawson)
Mary Alden
(Doris Valentine)
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