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  • Country Innocence (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
Country Innocence (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
Jim and Winnie are sweethearts. Jim is a hunter. Neither he nor the girl know the great cities. Wandering through the woods one day, Winnie meets David Graham, a city gentleman. Pursuing the unconventional ways of the woods, Graham enters ...See moreJim and Winnie are sweethearts. Jim is a hunter. Neither he nor the girl know the great cities. Wandering through the woods one day, Winnie meets David Graham, a city gentleman. Pursuing the unconventional ways of the woods, Graham enters into conversation with the girl and is soon struck by her innocence and beauty. Winnie, on the other hand, is impressed with Graham's fine manners. We soon find them seeking pleasant tete-a-tetes alone in the woods. Jim discovers this and attempts, in his rough way to interfere. Winnie resents this, much to his astonishment. When Jim presses his point she breaks off her engagement. Later, Graham persuades Winnie to go with him to the city. A year passes. Winnie returns, broken in spirit, dishonored, and with a child in her arms. Jim takes her in and, out of pity, marries her before she dies, in order to give a name to the child. Years pass. The child grows to beautiful young womanhood. Dick Carson, trapper, woos and wins her. About this time Jim, the foster father, is blinded, while hunting in the woods, by a gun accident. We now turn to Graham, who has married in the meantime. With his son Edmund, he leaves the city to spend the summer at his home in the hills. Edmund's first meeting with Dick is in the hills. Edmund informs Dick that he is trespassing upon the grounds belonging to his father. Dick refuses to listen. Edmund seeks the aid of his father to force the intruder off. It is while he is on this mission that Edmund first meets the girl and, like his father before him, he takes a fancy to her, and Dick, like Jim, instructs Edmund to keep away from the girl. Following this, there is a fight between the two boys. Dick tells the girl that she must refuse to speak to the stranger again. Winnie, like her mother before her, declares that she will do as she pleases. Fearing for the girl's safety, Dick visits the home of Graham and tells the father of the circumstances. The father laughs. His remark, "Boys will be boys," is the only satisfaction he will give. Dick threatens. Graham, fearing for his own safety, has bear traps set around his home. Later, we find Winnie, the younger, infatuated with Edmund. With Edmund it is simply a case of passing amusement. With Winnie it seems serious. Edmund tells Winnie of the city, of the streets, which are paved with gold, as it were. Winnie finally consents to accompany Edmund in an elopement. That night the girl leaves a note for her foster father, telling of her action, and naming the man she is going away with. Dick is present when the old man discovers the note. Dick reads it aloud. The old man asks him to repeat the name again. "Graham," the old man insists that Dick lead him to the house. Face to face with the older Graham, he informs him that his own son has run away with his daughter, that the eloping couple are brother and sister. He tells the older Graham who he is, and how he came to marry Winnie's mother. The scene shifts to the buggy carrying the eloping couple. The horse has taken fright; he bolts. There is a wild dash and a terrific smash as horse, buggy and occupants are plunged against a tree. Edmund is seriously injured. Winnie staggers to her feet and returns to Graham's house. There she finds her foster father. She tells him of the accident. Edmund is brought home. The night wears on; the chances for Edmund's recovery grow slim, Graham, who has rushed off to get a doctor, is caught in one of his own bear traps. There he remains through the night. When they find him in the morning his ears are deaf to the news of his own son's death. Both father and son have met punishment in death. As an epilogue we see Winnie's father taking the girl and Dick to a mound in the hills. There he tells them his own story. The girl is repentant and in the end we see the young pair happily married. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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10 19, 1914 (United States)

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Edmund Mortimer's primary photo
Edmund Mortimer
Edmund Graham - the Son Edmund Graham - the Son   See fewer
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Alexander Gaden
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Dorothy Phillips
Winnie the Mother / Winnie the Daughter Winnie the Mother / Winnie the Daughter   See fewer
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