The Flash of Fate (1914)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1914-01-17
Director: Henry MacRae
Writers: N/A
Language: None | English
Stars: William Clifford , Marie Walcamp , Val Paul , Phyllis Gordon , Sherman Bainbridge , Clarence Burton , William Ellingford
Runtime: 21 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Flash of Fate , The Flash of Fate (United States of America)
Plot: During Clifford's first day's work as a mining engineer, at the mother lode mine on which he is to make a report, he comes upon a miner injured by a blast. Clifford discovers this fellow to be the father of Marie, his boyhood sweetheart. He meets her and, although they have long since ceased to love each other, they continue to be fast friends. Failing to understand Val, the foreman at the mine and fiancé of Marie, becomes jealous and the jealous passion finally fanned into flame, there is a quarrel. In defending himself, Clifford is forced to shoot Val. The foreman's friends accuse Clifford of trying to murder Val and to save himself from the hasty verdict flees to the mountains. It is here that he meets Phyllis, a nurse, hurrying to the bedside of the wounded man. Phyllis has been lost. Clifford risks all to take her on to camp, and later he tells her that he is the man who did the shooting. Before making his escape again he instructs her to signal to him by the flash of a mirror, if within three days the boy is alive. Following there is long days of watching and waiting and work and suspense. The signal is given and Clifford returns. Val, partly recovered, explains away the compromising circumstances and we leave them with two romances in progress, one well along and the other just started.
IMDB:tt0326877