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  • The Message of an Arrow (1909)
  • Short | Short, Western
The Message of an Arrow (1909)
Short | Short, Western
When Slim, a cowboy, defends White Swan, an Indian girl, from Red, another cowboy, and takes her away, he gains Red's dislike. They reach the Indian camp and are told what has happened. Slim pacifies them and leaves. Gray Wolf, who is in ...See moreWhen Slim, a cowboy, defends White Swan, an Indian girl, from Red, another cowboy, and takes her away, he gains Red's dislike. They reach the Indian camp and are told what has happened. Slim pacifies them and leaves. Gray Wolf, who is in love with White Swan, becomes jealous and is ordered from the camp by the girl's father. Red and Gray Wolf get together and their combined confidences make them enemies to Slim. Red shows papers to Gray Wolf, which tell that money is to be gained if the Indian chief could be induced to sell his land, and that Slim must be disposed of. The chief is brought to the woods by Wolf, where they sit and drink, the squaw watching them. Red, Wolf and the chief enter a tavern, where papers are read, and interpreted incorrectly by Gray Wolf to the chief. When the time to sign comes, Slim rushes in and tears the papers to pieces. He then clears the tavern and sits alone to think. Red is about to shoot him, when he himself is shot. Slim is trying to figure out who did it, when the squaw says she did. Slim kisses her, when he realizes it was for his safety she did it, and she leaves the tavern. Gray Wolf recuses Slim of the deed, but no proof can be established. Gray Wolf manages to get possession of the papers Red had, and offers them to the squaw as a bribe to come to him, when revealing that he knows she killed Red. After White Swan goes with him, he takes the papers away, and leaves her alone. She tries to escape, and finding it impossible, ties a message to an arrow and shoots it into midair. It happens to fall at Slim's feet, when he is leaving town, and he goes to her rescue. Wolf returns, end a fight follows. Slim is victorious in every way, and Gray Wolf's duplicity made known when White Swan shows papers hidden in his bosom. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Fred J. Balshofer
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Updated Dec 3, 1909
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Dec 3, 1909 (United States)

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