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  • The Raiders (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Raiders (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
Bill Evans is a moonshiner in the mountains of Kentucky, where he lives with his wife and daughter, Mary. Jack Keane, a handsome young moonshiner, loves Mary and they are married, much to the disappointment of Bill Gale, another moonshiner...See moreBill Evans is a moonshiner in the mountains of Kentucky, where he lives with his wife and daughter, Mary. Jack Keane, a handsome young moonshiner, loves Mary and they are married, much to the disappointment of Bill Gale, another moonshiner, a rejected lover of Mary. A month later Bill Gale is in a barroom. He sees a poster offering a $250 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone operating an illicit still in the district. He betrays the location of the Evans' still to the revenue officers for the reward. Cyril, a typical mountain boy, out hunting, overhears the traitor plot with the revenue men to raid the still, and tries to warn the moonshiners, but in his haste to reach the still he falls into a chasm and is thus delayed. Gale rushes back to the still to avoid suspicion, explaining his absence by saying that he had gone for tobacco. That night the still is raided and demolished. Cyril at last reaches Mary Evans' cabin to tell her that the officers are raiding the still. Bill Evans, Mrs. Evans and Cyril all go with the moonshiners to fight the revenue officers, but Mary will stay to wait for her husband, who has not been seen since the beginning of the raid. In the meanwhile Bill Gale is shot. He runs to Mary's cabin, begging her to protect him. She will not listen to him, for she knows he is the traitor. Locking Gale in her cabin, she leaves to find the moonshiners to deliver him into their hands, but changes her plans when she sees the revenue officers approaching. She returns to her cabin and tells Gale she has changed her mind and will save him. She opens the door and tells him to run for his life. .The officers mistake Gale for one of the moonshiners and kill him by mistake. Mary hears the shot, knows that Gale is dead and is exultant. She leaves her cabin to look for her husband, but finds him dead on the trail. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Jay Hunt
Writers
Jack Cunningham (scenario) | Richard V. Spencer (written by)
Producer
Thomas H. Ince
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Updated Feb 20, 1914
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Feb 20, 1914 (United States)

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