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Star Eyes' Stratagem (1912)
Short | Short, Western

Star Eyes' Stratagem (1912)

Short | Short, Western

Star Eyes, a Sioux maiden, is in love with and loved by Eagle Feather, a Cheyenne Brave. They have clandestine meetings. Crow Face, a Sioux warrior, brings presents to the Sioux Chief and asks for Star Eyes as his squaw. The Chief consents...See moreStar Eyes, a Sioux maiden, is in love with and loved by Eagle Feather, a Cheyenne Brave. They have clandestine meetings. Crow Face, a Sioux warrior, brings presents to the Sioux Chief and asks for Star Eyes as his squaw. The Chief consents but Star Eyes fights the proposal. She is delivered over to a squaw, who is instructed to guard her closely. At dusk Eagle Feather awaits her at their meeting place, and when she doesn't come he tethers his horse and creeps into the Sioux camp. Star Eyes peeps out of the tepee and sees the guarding squaw is asleep. She also sees Eagle Feather and motions him back. Star Eyes chokes the squaw into insensibility and joins Eagle Feather. They run to the horse, mount and ride away. Crow Face sees her going in the dusk and follows, detects Eagle Feather, returns and rouses the camp and the couple are pursued to the Cheyenne camp. The Sioux are not in sufficient numbers to attack the Cheyennes, so they retreat. The Sioux declare war and surprise the Cheyennes when they are going through the wedding dance to celebrate the joining together of Eagle Feather and Star Eyes. Eagle Feather persuaded Star Eyes to escape. She does this and is joined by the fleeing Cheyennes, but Eagle Feather and others are captured and taken to the Sioux camp, where Eagle Feather is bound and insulted by his Sioux rival, Crow Face, and ordered to be burned at the stake. Star Eyes and the Cheyennes steal up to the Sioux camp in the dark in an effort to rescue Eagle Feather, and the other captives. Star Eyes sees the preparations for the burning of Eagle Feather. She chooses an open space between two clumps of trees and has a hole hastily dug there. It is finished just as the Sioux Chief is about to order the fuel heaped around Eagle Feather to be lit. Star Eyes sends a message to Crow Face, the Sioux Brave, stating she will submit to him if Eagle Feather is spared. She then orders the Cheyennes to conceal themselves in the trees. Crow Face peers through the darkness and distinguishes the form of Star Eyes with her arms outstretched. He goes to her, and lured by her smile and open arms he falls into the trap, the grave prepared for him. The Cheyennes sweep out to avenge their wrongs, and taking the Sioux unawares, put them to rout. Star Eyes is in time to stamp out the fire just ignited and to rescue Eagle Feather. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Mona Darkfeather Star Eyes - a Sioux Maiden Star Eyes - a Sioux Maiden See fewer	Justice of the Wild (1913)
Artie Ortego Eagle Feather - a Cheyenne Brave (as Art Ortego) Eagle Feather - a Cheyenne Brave (as Art Ortego) See fewer	The Valley of Bravery (1926)
Charles Bartlett Crow Face - a Sioux Warrior Crow Face - a Sioux Warrior See fewer	Tangled Trails (I) (1921)
William Bertram Sioux Chief (as William Bertrum) Sioux Chief (as William Bertrum) See fewer	The Old Maid's Baby (1919)
Jane Keckley Sioux Squaw Sioux Squaw See fewer	Sweet Lavender (1920)
Chief Harvey Cheyenne Chief Cheyenne Chief See fewer	The Tattoo (1912)
Chief Phillipi Actor Actor See fewer	The Legend of the Amulet (1914)