When the Blood Calls (1913)

电影

国家/地区: N/A
类型: 剧情, 短片, 西部
上映日期: 1913-08-20
导演: Frank Montgomery
编剧: N/A
语言: None | English
演员: Mona Darkfeather , Artie Ortego , Lawrence Peyton , Frances Kimbel , Jack Messick
片长: 分钟
奖项: N/A
又名: When the Blood Calls (美国) , When the Blood Calls
剧情简介: A miner, Shaw, with his wife and little boy, Jim, is working a claim in the Sioux country. Jim crawls into the tunnel while his father is at work and falls asleep. A hand of Sioux attacks the miner's cabin, and when he goes to rescue his wife, the Indians kill the father and mother and burn the cabin. Later, Jim comes out, finds the bodies of his parents, and after burying them as best he can, wanders away. He is found in the woods by little Mona, the daughter of Chief Long Knife, and takes him to the camp. Mona takes a fancy to little Jim, and the chief adopts him. Jim forgets his white ancestry and becomes, to all appearances, an Indian, with their customs and manners. Ten years pass, and Jim and Mona, now grown, are sweethearts. By killing his first bear unaided, be wins his first eagle feather. He is taught the prowess of a chief, and is looking forward to some great deed by which he may win the right to wear a war bonnet. A fort has been established in the region, and the colonel's daughter, against advice, goes alone for a ride. She is captured by Long Knife's band and taken to his camp. There she is tied to a tree, and the chief tells Jim that here is his chance to win his war bonnet. Here is a pale face for him to torture to death. Jim is elated at his opportunity and advances to begin the torture. As he is about to strike, his forgotten childhood comes back to him, and he remembers that he and this captive are of the same blood. His Indian training battles with his racial sympathy, but the blood call is too strong and he refuses to torture Alice. The Indians accuse him of being a coward, with the heart of a squaw. They condemn him to wear a squaw's dress and be treated as one. He is made to do squaw's work. Mona's love keeps her faithful to him in spite of his humiliation. Together, they conspire to get Alice away. Jim is sent for water. He slips away and goes to the fort. Arriving at the fort, he tells the anxious colonel of his daughter's fate, and leads the soldiers back toward the camp. When near to it, he tells them to wait and slips back into camp with the water he was sent for. The squaws beat him for his long delay, and Mona protects him. Jim and Mona go to the tepee where Alice is confined. Alice and Mona change clothes, and Jim ties Mona where Alice was. Jim and Alice slip away, but are seen by a squaw, who tells Long Knife his daughter is with the despised coward. Long Knife sends his braves after them, and the Indians and soldiers meet. The Indians are forced to retreat and when they report the result to Long Knife, he rushes to the tepee and stabs Mona (thinking it is Alice) in revenge. When he discovers his mistake. Long Knife stabs himself. Jim, accompanied by Alice and the colonel, return to get Mona, and finds her dying. He carries her out of the tepee. Mona dies, after bidding Alice and Jim farewell. They bury her according to Indian custom, and at her grave the colonel asks Jim to return to the fort with Alice and himself. But Jim, true to big love for Mona, refuses, preferring death where she lies.
IMDB:tt0287137