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  • The Forest Nymph (1917)
  • Short | 30 min | Short, Drama
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The Forest Nymph (1917)
Short | 30 min | Short, Drama
Bartine lived in Malibu Canyon, her only friends the wild things and a half-witted mountain boy called Bennie. One day she stole his clothes while he was in bathing, leaving him her ragged frock. His overalls were dirty; and she went in ...See moreBartine lived in Malibu Canyon, her only friends the wild things and a half-witted mountain boy called Bennie. One day she stole his clothes while he was in bathing, leaving him her ragged frock. His overalls were dirty; and she went in bathing, too, while he came up and made the exchange. While they were playing, a man was hiding among the trees to escape the sheriff, and Luke, a bad character of the neighborhood, had seen the girl reflected in the water, and desired her. He went to the girl's drunken father, armed with a bottle of mountain whiskey, and asked for Bartine for a wife. The sheriff passed Bartine and asked her if she had seen a stranger. She answered in the negative, when, to her surprise, the stranger crawled out of the undergrowth behind her. She asked him what the sheriff wanted with him, and he told her that he had killed a man who had wronged his sister Jane so that she had taken her own life. Bartine resolved to save the stranger. She led him to a retreat that she alone knew. He was hungry and she went home to get him food, dodging questions from her father. The next morning she went again with food to the stranger, who showed that he was attracted by her innocent charm. Luke meanwhile visited her father to ask again for his daughter. As he had with him a present the old man was quite willing. Luke overtook Bartine coming from the cliff, and pursued her. He chased her to her home, and she hid from him in a box. That night the stranger came to her in her home, and she gave up her room to him. The sheriff arrived to search the house, but Bartine hid the stranger under her mattress, and then lay on the mattress in such a way that there appeared to be no one there. In the morning Luke, peering through the window, discovered the girl as she went into the bedroom to wake the stranger. He stole into the room, found the stranger's gun on the table and removed the cartridges. Then when the man and girl were in the living room together he entered and offered to show the stranger the trail to Azusa, where he said he was going. They set out together. Luke shoots the stranger in the back before they have gone far. He pretends to be more hurt than he is, and when Luke bends over him, the two struggle together on the edge of the cliff. Bennie has followed them at a distance, and as he sees the stranger hanging over the cliff, with Luke clinging to him, he helps the man to pull himself up, and Luke falls to his death. Then Bennie rescues Bartine, who runs to the stranger. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Robert Z. Leonard
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Updated Apr 24, 1917
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Apr 24, 1917 (United States)

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