The White Rose of the Wilds (1911)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1911-05-25
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writers: Bret Harte , Frank E. Woods
Language: None | English
Stars: Blanche Sweet , Robert Harron , W. Chrystie Miller , Wilfred Lucas , Joseph Graybill , Donald Crisp (I) (1882–1974) , Mack Sennett
Runtime: 17 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The White Rose of the Wilds (United States of America) , The White Rose of the Wilds , A Story of the West (United States of America)
Plot: An unsuccessful old gold miner is stricken down and dies, leaving three young children to take care of themselves. They are a boy of seventeen, a girl of sixteen and a girl of eleven. The boy, inheriting his father's determination, insists that they remain for he is sure there is gold to be found. Later his efforts are rewarded, and he rushes off to the agent to file his claim. While he is away a trio of thugs break into the cabin, but the pure, innocent girl so impresses one of them that he drives the other two off. To him she is as a white, unsullied rose, blooming here in the wilderness. Her clear eye of innocence awakens his better self and he goes, asking if he may return when he has proven himself worthy.
IMDB:tt0001983