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The Hills of Silence (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

The Hills of Silence (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

Practically beggared by financial reverses, the Reeds and the Blakes, neighboring families in an eastern town, leave for the California gold fields. After many days of weary travel they fall in with an emigrant train and continue westward....See morePractically beggared by financial reverses, the Reeds and the Blakes, neighboring families in an eastern town, leave for the California gold fields. After many days of weary travel they fall in with an emigrant train and continue westward. During the journey Jack Blake pursues his courtship and Mary Reed. Before the emigrants have completed more than two-thirds of their journey they find themselves in a territory peopled with hostile Indians. The Reed wagon and the Blake wagon become separated. Without any anticipation the redskins fall upon the handful of white men. Mary's mother is killed and herself, her father and brother barely escape with their lives. Even a worse fate overtakes Jack Blake. Every member of his family except himself is massacred. The surviving members of the Reed family settle in California, but the older Reed's sorrow for his dead wife preys upon him so heavily that he loses interest in the affairs of life. Surrounded by rough men, Mary accustoms herself to the use of a revolver that in time of need she may protect herself. But misfortune follows her family. One day while she is practicing with the weapon she accidentally shoots and kills her brother. After a lapse of a number of years Jack Blake again shows up in California. He is now a graduate mining engineer. In a fight which begins over a game of cards he is wounded by Red Lawson, a worthless vagabond and gambler. In hiding from the authorities, Lawson seeks refuge in the Reed home. Mary is there alone and in protecting herself from the fugitive, a lamp is overturned and the house is burned down. His fortune has done its worst for the Reeds and the turning point is at hand. While in pursuit of Lawson, Jack Blake finds Mary, his former sweetheart. The elder Reed sees the lovers reunited and, concluding that they have no more use for him, leaves him. The story comes to a dramatic climax when in the midst of a homesteaders race Red Lawson comes upon Reed, who is mourning beside his wife's grave. Red is about to kill Reed when an old enemy of the bad man shoots and kills him. Jack Blake and Mary seek out the elder Reed and the remaining members of both ill-fated families reunite for a luckier future.' Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Ray Gallagher The Man from the East The Man from the East See fewer	The Prisoner's Story (1912)
Cleo Madison Miss Reed Miss Reed See fewer	Her Bitter Cup (1916)
Frank Lanning Mr. Reed Mr. Reed See fewer	The Unknown (1927)
Beatrice Van Mrs. Reed Mrs. Reed See fewer	The Black Box (1915)
Edwin Alexander The Desperado The Desperado See fewer	Why? With Hannibal Buress (2015)