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Li'l Nor'wester (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

Li'l Nor'wester (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

Adored by her Grandfather Antone, Little Nor'wester grows up to know none of the restrictions of her sex. With the men she is out at sun-up fishing, sharing their rough fare, facing the storms, fearing nothing. There are two brothers among...See moreAdored by her Grandfather Antone, Little Nor'wester grows up to know none of the restrictions of her sex. With the men she is out at sun-up fishing, sharing their rough fare, facing the storms, fearing nothing. There are two brothers among the fishermen, Silent Jim and his younger brother, Jack. Both are in love with Little Nor'wester, but neither have spoken to her of marriage. There is also among the crew a foreigner known as Beppo, the Greaser, who also loves Nor'wester, and asks her to marry him. During a frightful storm at sea, Grandfather Antone is killed, and Litle Nor'wester comes face to face with tragedy. None can do anything with her until Jim steps in. Always a wild little creature, Little Nor'wester becomes, after her Grandfather Antone's death, more lawless than ever. Although she will not admit Jack to her home, Jim insists upon entering and tells her that whether she wants him to or not, he is going to watch over her as he does over his mother and brother. Jack falls in with a rough crew and has begun to drink. One night while on the beach Little Nor'wester meets Beppo. He tries to seize her. She struggles and as she does so, Jack, hall intoxicated, chances along. He sobers at sight of the struggle and breaks in, giving Beppo a good beating. Then he takes the girl home. Unconscious of the late hour, Little Nor'wester, finding that Jack has been cut, tells him to come in while she bathes his cheek. He does so, and after she has bathed it, he attempts to make love to her. She orders him away, but he will not go. Jim, searching for his brother, happens to pass by, and hearing voices, enters the house. Furious at Jack, he orders him home. Jack sneers at Jim and says that he wouldn't interfere if he wasn't in love with the girl himself. Jim leaves them. Jack waits a few minutes longer trying to make peace with Little Nor'wester, but she won't speak to him and he goes. As he leaves the house Beppo, still nursing his wound, passes, and seeing Jack leaving at so late an hour, plans to ruin the girl by scandal. Jim overhears the men on the docks talking about Jack and the girl, and finding that Beppo is the cause, flies at him in rage. It is Jack who saves him from murdering the greaser, and Jim, taking Jack aside, tells him what is being said and urges that he marry Little Nor'wester at once. The banns are read in the church and the young people are restored to the favor of the community. After the first reading of the banns Little Nor'wester escapes to the beach to be alone with her thoughts. There she finds a little girl crying because she cannot reach a wild flower that grows high on a cliff. Nor'wester starts to climb the cliff just as Jim appears. Wild with fear for her safety, he determines to cut her off and starts to ascend the Devil's Pass. When she sees the danger he is in she calls out to him that she will go no farther, but even as she calls he loses his footing and falls to the water below. Jim is badly hurt. Nor'wester nurses him devotedly through the long weeks of his illness until he grows better. When Jim is able to speak, he urges her to marry Jack, but she tells him that it is he whom she wants. Jack enters, and joins their hands. "I'm not blind," he says. "I've guessed the truth for a long time." Thus Little Nor'wester marries Jim after all. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Mary Fuller Antone - Li'l Nor'wester Antone - Li'l Nor'wester See fewer	The Huntress of Men (1916)
Robert F. Hill Grandfather Antone Grandfather Antone See fewer	Shadow of Chinatown (I) (1936)
Paul Panzer Silent Jim Silent Jim See fewer	The Black Book (1929)
Ralph Belmont Jack Jack See fewer	A Sea Mystery (1916)
Glen White Beppo the Greaser Beppo the Greaser See fewer	Camille (1917)