Old King Coal

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About the film

Old King Coal

Release Date: January 29, 1916

Year	:	1916
Slogan	:	«A Gripping Episode of the Methods Used by the Coal Trust to Keep Up the Price of this Necessary Commodity.»
Genres	:	Drama
Production Companies	:	Universal Film Manufacturing Company
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Stone assures Weisner, head of the Coal Trust, that Larnigan will never start for Pennsylvania. Weisner is skeptical and informs Stone that if he does go he may be killed, as a strike is in progress. Weisner, a little later in Maxwell's home repeats the statement of it being an easy matter to kill Tom should be come to the coal country. Dorothy Maxwell and Kitty Rockford overhear the conversation. They decide to go to the coal country and lend their aid to Tom.