His Enemy, the Law (1918)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama
Release: 1918-06-16
Director: Raymond Wells
Writers: Lillian Ducey , George Elwood Jenks
Language: None
Stars: Jack Richardson , Jack Richardson , Irene Hunt , Irene Hunt , Jack Livingston , Graham Pettie , Dorothy Hagan , Walt Whitman , Mae Giraci , Burwell Hamrick , Buster Irving
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Heritage (United States of America) , His Enemy, the Law (United States of America) , His Enemy, the Law
Plot: Captain Jack Rogers returns home from the Civil War to find that his fiancée's father has broken his engagement to Sarah Catherwood because Jack's income is so low. Jack goes West to earn his fortune but soon hears that Pamela has wed her former suitor, Randolph. Heartbroken, Jack proposes to a widow, but their marriage is so unhappy that he leaves, taking his son John with him. In the town of Ten Strike, Jack robs a stage and is shot by a posse. The sheriff adopts little John, who grows to manhood nurturing such an intense hatred for the law that in his renowned law practice, he intentionally helps notorious criminals escape justice. Sarah's daughter, Sally Randolph, begs John to defend her lover who has been charged with murder, and John succeeds in winning his freedom, but upon the young criminal's release from prison, he is shot and killed. When John and Sally discover that their parents were in love, they marry and begin a new life together.
IMDB:tt0184574