A Tale of the Wilderness (1912)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short, Western
Release: 1912-01-08
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writers: James Fenimore Cooper
Language: None | English
Stars: Dorothy Bernard , Charles Hill Mailes , Edwin August , William J. Butler , Dark Cloud , Edna Foster , Muriel Ostriche , Charles West
Runtime: 19 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: A Tale of the Wilderness , A Tale of the Wilderness (United States of America)
Plot: In the wilds of the Kentucky hills two brothers, the elder an outlaw, view from a distance the approach of a party of settlers moving forward to a new home in the vast wildness. The younger brother is overwhelmed by the sight of the pioneers, and, unknown to his elder brother, joins their party. The settlers build a stockade home and the outlook is most rosy, until the outlaw brother meets a girl from the stockade at the spring, he, of course, not knowing his brother is among the party. He forces his attentions upon her, which she repulses, rushing back to the stockade for help. The outlaw's influence with the neighboring Indians arouses them in his plan for vengeance. They attack the stockade, and when the settlers' chance seems hopeless they dig a tunnel from the back of the stockade to the hillside. Most of them have effected an escape, but among the few captured is the younger brother, so the outlaw regrets his action and uses again his influence with the Indians, but with a different effect.
IMDB:tt0002516