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Yellow Flame
Also known as Indianeren Gule Flammes Dødsdrøm in Denmark : {The Yellow Flame}
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Charles Giblyn
Cast: Mr. French (Charles K. French) [James Condon], Swallow (Ernest Swallow) [Yellow Flame], Miss Lyons [Little Fawn], Mr. Morrison (Chick Morrison) [Bill Forbes], Mr. Smithy [Jack Hull]
New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Broncho]. / Produced by Thomas H. Ince. From a screen story by William H. Clifford. / Released 18 February 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in Denmark as Indianeren Gule Flammes Dødsdrøm on 18 March 1915.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Jim Condon, the sheriff, receives word that Yellow Flame has been released from prison and is returning to the settlement. Yellow Flame, ill with an incurable disease, has begged to return to his childhood home. When he arrives he takes the trail to the desert and, sitting down beside an Indian grave, falls into a reverie in which he sees himself again as a young man, the favored suitor of Little Fawn. One day while buffalo bunting, be is attacked by Black Feather, also a suitor for the hand of Little Fawn and Yellow Flame falling in the water. Black Feather reports him drowned. Jim rescues Yellow Flame, takes him to his cabin and cares for him. Scouts report that the Indians are on the warpath and have cut the telegraph wires. Jim sends Yellow Flame with a note to the commander of the nearby fort soliciting his aid. On the trail Yellow Flame is seen by Black Feather, who shoots him, and Yellow Flame, falling unconscious. Black Feather thinks him dead and takes the note. While trying to rejoin the braves, Black Feather is seen by a couple of scouts belonging to the soldiers’ provision train. They fire at him, wounding him mortally, but they are unable to find him, as he has retreated to a cave, where he dies. The soldiers, hearing the attack on the settlement, come to their aid. Yellow Flame, recovering consciousness, goes to the settlement and is denounced by Jim. When Yellow Flame comes out of his dream, he hears the call of the happy hunting ground and dies. Jack Hull, one of the settlers, while hunting sees a large snake, which he pursues to the cave, where he finds the skeleton with the note. He returns to the settlement, presents the note to Jim and all start out to find Yellow Flame. When they reach him he is dead and all feel much grieved over their wrong censorship of him.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 22 January 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
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