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Through Flaming Paths (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

Through Flaming Paths (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

Clara Roland is the daughter of the president of a company that owns mines and electric railways that run through a heavily-forested region. Clara's suitors are Ralph Gresham, superintendent of the company, and young engineer Basil Conrad,...See moreClara Roland is the daughter of the president of a company that owns mines and electric railways that run through a heavily-forested region. Clara's suitors are Ralph Gresham, superintendent of the company, and young engineer Basil Conrad, who incurs Gresham's dislike by protesting against the storing of powder intended for the mines in a wooden freight house located in the forest and the lack of precautions against forest fires. When it appears that Clara favors Basil. Gresham resorts to underhand means to throw upon Basil strong suspicion of crime and he is discharged. Basil is forced to find employment as a laborer in a lumber camp in the hills. With his rival removed Gresham now has high hopes of winning Clara. The very carelessness against which Basil vainly protested at length causes a forest fire which is soon beyond control, and which places in great danger a number of settlers in the lumber camps, whose only hope for escape is by means of the electric line, along which the fire is already burning. No man will make the desperate attempt to rescue the imperiled settlers. However. Clara determines to do so, and she seizes a car and dashes into the fire zone. Meanwhile, Basil has succeeded in gathering at a point on the line all the settlers, trusting that a rescue train would come. Clara finally succeeds in reaching this point. Gresham, shamed by the girl's superior courage and frantic at the thought of her peril, follows as fast as he dares. By desperate efforts, Clara and Basil have brought their car to a point almost alongside the freight house where the powder is stored when the current suddenly fails and the car stops; the feed wire has broken near where Gresham is standing. The freight shed is now on fire, and Gresham realizes it is a matter only of moments before it will blow up. It is impossible for the people on the car to escape on foot, their only chance being to rush through the fire. Gresham determines to save Clara and the others from the results of his own acts, and with his bare hands seizes the ends of the broken feed wire. The car leaps forward, dashes through the fire, and all are saved. A moment later the powder house explodes. Gresham has died at the first shock of the powerful current, but the magnetism has welded his hands to the wires and kept the circuit closed. Examination of the documents in Gresham's office proves Basil's innocence of the charges against him and the lovers are happily united. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Edward Peil Sr. Basil Conrad (as Edward Peil) Basil Conrad (as Edward Peil) See fewer	Broken Blossoms (1919)
Justina Huff Clara Roland Clara Roland See fewer	Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1913)
Joseph W. Smiley Ralph Gresham Ralph Gresham See fewer	Life Without Soul (1915)
John Smiley Actor Actor See fewer	The Battle of Shiloh (1913)