A Romance of the Alps (1915)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1915-11-21
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: None | English
Stars: Marguerite Marsh , William Hinckley , Karl Formes , Kate Toncray , Charles Gill , Alfred Paget
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: A Romance of the Alps , A Romance of the Alps (United States of America)
Plot: Wally and Andreas, Tyrolean lovers, meet at their trysting place on a mountain peak. Andreas procures for Wally a singularly beautiful spray of edelweiss. Some days later, Captain Vollenberg, an Austrian officer, arrives at the cottage of the girl's father and is instantly smitten with Wally's beauty. He forces his attentions upon her, and insists upon climbing a dangerous precipice to get for her some of the much-sought edelweiss. She, however, on comparing the captain's gift with that of Andreas, decides that her lover's token is far finer. At the time, the captain and the Swiss maiden are standing on the mountaintop at the trysting place. He becomes insistent in his love-making, and Wally is frightened. She is rescued by her lover. In the struggle which ensues, the captain falls over the cliff. Andreas, however, saves his life. Later, General Volenberg, father of the captain orders that yearly military conscription be made in the Tyrol. Andreas is sent to headquarters. Receiving a telegraphic message that Wally is in distress, he deserts his post and returns to the trysting place. Here he is dragged from his sweetheart's arms, and sentenced to dig his own grave. Wally goes to intercede with the general for her lover's life. He refuses to hear her. On the young captain entering, however, she tells how Andreas has formerly saved the general's son from death in the Alps. The captain is forced to admit that this is so, and the general issues a pardon for gratitude's sake. Wally rides to the scene of execution. She is barely in time to arrest the firing.
IMDB:tt0496105