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  • The Wreckers (1912)
  • Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
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The Wreckers (1912)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
The scene is laid in a little fishing village located on a rocky coast and just around a point from the lighthouse. For several years past a number of vessels have been wrecked in a mysterious manner between the village and the lighthouse....See moreThe scene is laid in a little fishing village located on a rocky coast and just around a point from the lighthouse. For several years past a number of vessels have been wrecked in a mysterious manner between the village and the lighthouse. There were several well-known fishermen in the place, who could have told why if they wished, and could have told of the beacon fire on a ledge of rock, between the two projecting cliffs beyond the town, which stood at the edge of the sea and whose top commanded a view far and near. The fire was only visible from the ocean side of the cliffs. These men were secretly wreckers and one of them had a young and innocent daughter, who never dreamed of her father's business. She had two lovers, the favored one a young sailor, the other was a young man above the village people in birth and education, and was an assistant to the old doctor there. He and his rival had been the best of friends until the girl made a choice between them, when a quarrel leading to blows followed. They were reconciled, however, through the girl's efforts, and one day went up to the top of the big cliff to see if they could discover any trace of a strange light that a sailor swore he saw the night before when coming in from sea. The young doctor came back alone, greatly agitated, and said his friend had stumbled and fallen over the edge of the cliff, and that he had called him, and descended to the water and searched, but could find no trace of him. They organized a rescue party, but the result was the same, and they decided the body had been washed out to sea. The girl still refused to believe her lover dead, but in a day or two the doctor was arrested, charged with throwing him over the cliff. He protested his innocence in vain, and at the trial the girl's father swore he saw two men struggling on the cliff top the fatal afternoon. That evidence settled it, and he was convicted. He was sentenced to be hung in one week from that day. The county seat was 50 miles inland, and no railroad of course. At the very last moment he was saved by the arrival of the supposed dead man. whose fall had landed him in the secret cave of the wreckers, and from which he was rescued by means of a dream which came to his sweetheart twice in one night. He was to be killed, the girl's father reluctantly consenting, but he escaped in time to prevent legal murder. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Carl Laemmle
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Updated Oct 7, 1912
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Oct 7, 1912 (United States)

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