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  • Trailed to the Hills (1910)
  • Short | Short, Western
Trailed to the Hills (1910)
Short | Short, Western
Harry Forsyth, a young easterner, happy in the belief that his wife loves him above all others, bids her good-bye one day to leave for a neighboring city. The next few scenes show him at his room in the hotel in a distant town, eagerly ...See moreHarry Forsyth, a young easterner, happy in the belief that his wife loves him above all others, bids her good-bye one day to leave for a neighboring city. The next few scenes show him at his room in the hotel in a distant town, eagerly awaiting some message from home. Two days go by and the letter is not forthcoming. Worried about what may have occurred at home, young Forsyth, over a long distance telephone, is put into communication with his butler at home. The butler reads him the following message, with the statement that his wife left the house a few days before in company of another man: "Deal Harry, I am going away with another man I love better than you. Forget me and be happy. Yours, Gladys." After young Forsyth recovers from this terrible shock he decides to hunt out the man who wrecked his home and have revenge. After many weary days of search he finds his wife in a dismal attic, half-starved and dying from a broken heart. The man she had loved and for whom she had sacrificed everything had grown tired of her and gone away. Forsyth, learning that Phillips, the villain, has gone west, kisses his wife good-bye and makes a solemn vow to run drown the traitor. His wanderings take him west. Occasionally he loses the trail but finds it and continues his search with but one ambition in life and that, revenge. Into mining camps, cattle ranches, through the timber lands he traces Phillips, the quarry seeming to just slip through his fingers at the moment when he has him. However, the pursuit ends one night in a gambling dive in one of the mining camps. Forsyth enters, scans each face and seats himself at a table. The man opposite looks at him covertly, unsuspicious, as Forsyth brings forth a locket which contains Phillips' picture. He compares the face with the one in the locket, then rising pulls his revolver. There is a flash and Phillips tumbles over on the floor, while Forsyth, covering the others with his gun, leaps over the tables and chairs and runs out of the place. An exciting chase follows, alter the sheriff has been acquainted with the murder and a posse has been organized, but the fugitive eludes them. The scene shifts to the interior of a miner's shack two or three days later. The miner enters, studying a poster which advertises a reward for the arrest of Forsyth, or Andy Reel, as he is known in the west. He is preparing his frugal meal when there is a knock at the door and he opens it to the fugitive murderer. There is no mistaking the identity as the poster prints a picture of the fugitive. The miner gives the starving murderer food but as he is about to leave the miner whips out his gun and threatens to shoot if his captive moves a muscle. Forsyth drops into a chair in despair. Then he brings out a note which he has carried with him for many years and shows it to the miner. This affects the latter strangely and when the sheriff and posse ride up a few moments later the miner denies having seen anything of the fugitive and they go on out of sight. Forsyth is grateful and asks the miner's reason for his sudden change of mind. The miner brings out a note which, he, too, has kept for many years. It reads, "Dear Tom, I am going away with a man I love better than you. Forgive and forget me and be happy. Yours, Mary." Then he stretches out his hand and the two men look into each other's eyes. "1 got my man," says the miner, "Did you?" Forsyth nods his head. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
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Updated Jul 16, 1910
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Jul 16, 1910 (United States)

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Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson's primary photo
Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
Harry Forsyth Harry Forsyth   See fewer
The Infant at Snakeville (1911)
Gladys Field's primary photo
Gladys Field
Gladys Forsyth Gladys Forsyth   See fewer
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Franklyn Hall's primary photo
Franklyn Hall
Phillips (as Frank Hall) Phillips (as Frank Hall)   See fewer
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