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According to Their Lights
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Eugene Nowland
Cast: Pat O’Malley [Bob Mason], Margaret Prussing [Grace Snowden], Yale Benner [Eric Allen], Wiilliam H. West [Nate Tracey], Bessie Learn [Meg, a mountain girl], Charles Sutton [Colonel Richard Snowden], Robert Brower [Judge Hardy]
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Eugene Nowland. / Released [?] 22 or 28? May 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Amos Hartley, a Washington real estate broker, has just received a letter from Colonel Snowden, of Madison Hills, Tennessee, to the effect that he will not consider the sale of his coal lands. Bob Mason is delegated to go to Madison Hills and persuade the Colonel to sell the lands. Bob is given a code book, and directed to send all messages in that code. Arriving in Madison Hills, Bob meets the Colonel and also his daughter, Grace. She is immediately impressed by his fine appearance, with the result that Bob is persuaded to stay to supper. His presence in the little town is noticed particularly by Eric Allen, who, seeing him on occasions with Grace, becomes jealous. He follows Bob to the telegraph office where he learns that the stranger has been sending code messages. Meg Tracey, daughter of Nate Tracey, a mountaineer, operating a “wildcat” still some distance from his cabin, meets Bob while on her way to school. He reads her primer with her, and is sorry within himself that she has had no education. Meg takes an immediate liking to him, and subsequently meets him often. Bob has become engaged to Grace, the teacher at the little school which Meg has started to attend. Colonel Snowden has consented to the deal, and Bob sends a code message to Washington to that effect. Allen overhears him at the telegraph office ask the operator where Sherad’s Forks is. Allen puts two and two together and concludes that Bob is going to raid Tracey’s still, which is close to Sherad’s Forks. He warns Tracey, in the presence of Meg, who will not believe that Bob is a revenue officer. Early in the morning in question Meg slips out and getting Grace, repairs to Sherad’s Forks, where Bob and Colonel Snowden have gone to look over some land. The Traceys are in waiting with guns as Bob approaches. Meg’s signals for them to stay back are misconstrued by Bob and the Colonel, and Meg rushes forward in time to receive the bullet meant for Bob. Allen is shot dead by the Colonel. The Colonel explains Bob’s mission to Tracey and the code messages.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 December 2024.
References: Braff-Short n. 48 : Website-IMDb.
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