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  • The Law of the Mountains (1909)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Law of the Mountains (1909)
Short | Short, Drama
This is a story of the moonshiners of Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. Wes Clayborne, a young mountaineer, and Emily Harden, daughter of another mountaineer, are in love with each other and decide to get married. Things go very well with ...See moreThis is a story of the moonshiners of Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. Wes Clayborne, a young mountaineer, and Emily Harden, daughter of another mountaineer, are in love with each other and decide to get married. Things go very well with them for a time until Wes has a long spell of sickness. Their scant savings are gone and credit is denied them at the village store. Wes, returning one day after a heartbreaking tramp for work, finds his child at the point of death. He rushes for the doctor and begs him to see the child, but he refuses unless his fee is paid. Heartbroken, Wes turns homeward, but is overtaken by a revenue officer, who tells him how he can make some money by informing on a certain band of moonshiners for whom he has been long searching. Wes at first indignantly denies all knowledge of the band, but at sight of a roll of bills and thinking of his sick child gives the revenue officer the information he wants. Next we see him on his way to the doctor, who on receiving his fee visits the child, while Wes makes some necessary purchases at the store. A group of mountaineers loafing around the store become suspicious of Wes when they see him with the money, and demand to know where he got it. Wes returns home with his purchases and his wife in surprise eagerly asks him how he came by them, but be answers evasively and inquires about the child. A few days later a kindly neighbor tells Mrs. Clayborne that her husband is suspected of informing on some moonshiners who have been arrested by the revenue officers, and warns them to flee. She begs her husband to deny the accusation, but he only shakes his head and tries to hide his face. But the inexorable law of the mountains has been broken and Wes is shot from behind and dies, having sacrificed his own life for the sake of his child. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Sidney Olcott
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Updated Dec 17, 1909
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Dec 17, 1909 (United States)

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