Fur Smugglers - Cast

Fur Smugglers (1912)
Short | Short, Thriller

Fur Smugglers (1912)

Short | Short, Thriller

Ruth Maynard lives happily with her father up in the snowbound woods near the Canadian border. Her father and Steve Phillips are fur smugglers, and have always managed to evade the watchful eyes of the customs officers. Walter Leggett, a ...See moreRuth Maynard lives happily with her father up in the snowbound woods near the Canadian border. Her father and Steve Phillips are fur smugglers, and have always managed to evade the watchful eyes of the customs officers. Walter Leggett, a young customs officer, vows to discover the smugglers, and through his sweetheart, the school teacher in Maynard's vicinity, decides to get on the trail of Maynard. He plans a ruse whereby he will be taken into Maynard's cabin supposedly very ill. The ruse works far better than he expected, for he manages to win the love of Ruth during his supposedly convalescent period. Steve resents Leggett's intrusion and suspects him. He gives Ruth his revolver for protection and she has no occasion to use it until Leggett leaves, making an appointment to meet her down by the river. Steve sees Leggett with the school teacher and later meets Ruth patiently waiting at the tryst. She won't believe Steve at first, then Leggett not coming, she runs home, where she discovers Leggett searching and finding the hidden furs. Securing the gun she waits for him. He discovers her purpose and wrenches the gun from her, then runs down the trail. The school teacher coming along, sees the whole affair. Leggett stumbles and in falling, shoots himself. When Steve is taxed with the killing through the fact that it was his gun that was used, he realizes that Ruth alone must be the responsible one and so shoulders the blame himself. Ruth and the teacher arrive in time to clear Steve and later she slips from her father's comforting arms to seek those of Steve, and is forgiven. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Henry B. Walthall Walter Leggett - Customs Officer Walter Leggett - Customs Officer See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Gertrude Robinson Ruth Maynard Ruth Maynard See fewer	The Feud and the Turkey (1908)
Jane Fearnley The School Teacher The School Teacher See fewer	The Black Stork (1917)
Charles Herman Maynard - Ruth's Father Maynard - Ruth's Father See fewer	When the Heart Calls (II) (1912)
Arthur Robinson Actor Actor See fewer	The Scarlet Runner (1916)
James Cooley Actor Actor See fewer	The Van Nostrand Tiara (1913)