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'''''The Westerner and the Earl''''' is a 1911 American [[silent film|silent]] [[short film|short]] [[drama]] film produced by the [[Thanhouser Company]]. The film focuses on a society woman who seeks to gain status as the [[mother-in-law]] of an English earl, but her daughter already loves an American suitor. The earl hires a [[Wild West show]]'s [[American Indian|Indian]] actors to kidnap him and the heiress so that he can win her affections, but is foiled by her American suitor who hires the [[cowboy]] actors and becomes the hero. The earl's plans are foiled and the heiress gets to marry her American suitor. The film was billed as a
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The film focuses on Mrs. Montague, an American society woman, who has a fascination on titles of notability. She was delighted to have an English earl pay her a visit and began wanting to see herself as the mother-in-law of an earl. The marriage would be a benefit, since the earl was poor and the Montagues were wealthy with a charming and eligible daughter. Or so she thought, the daughter already had an American sweetheart and did not care for foreign earl. The mother plotted to help the earl win her daughter's affections and informed him of a [[Wild West Show]]. The earl hired the proprietor and his band of Indians to kidnap himself and the heiress, then allow the earl to escape and free her so that she would want to marry him. The plot was overheard by her American suitor who contracted the same proprietor to capture the Indians after they captured the heiress. The
Little is known about the production of the film, including the cast, scenario writer and the director. A surviving film still gives the possibility of establishing cast credits, but the fact that the film is lost makes a deeper analysis of the film impossible.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturenew04unse | title=Moving Picture News (1911) | publisher=Cinematograph Publishing Company | date=1911 | accessdate=24 July 2015 | pages=114}}</ref> The single reel film, approximately 980 feet long, was released on February 7, 1911.<ref name=earl /> The film is presumed lost because the film is not known to be held in any archive or by any collector.<ref name="res">{{cite web | url=http://www.thanhouser.org/research.htm | title=Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. Research Center - Film Database| publisher=Thanhouser.org | date=2014 | accessdate=20 January 2015}}</ref>
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