A Manly Man (1911)

Of the over 30 onereelers Mary Pickford made in Cuba for Carl Laemmles Independent Motion Pictures Company A Manly Man is one of few that survives today Pickford plays Lola a young Filipino woman who falls in love with Duncan William E Shay a Caucasian man sent to her village on business After Lola risks her life nursing his fever and saving him from a knife attack Duncan marries her and resists the temptation to return to his American fiancée Directed by Thomas Ince and costarring Pickfords first husband Owen Moore A Manly Man was later reissued under the title His Gratitude 1914