As the Crow Flies - Production & Contact Info

As the Crow Flies (1914)
Short | Short, Adventure

As the Crow Flies (1914)

Short | Short, Adventure

Marrophat, failing to overtake Judith in her flight, turns back to advise with Red November. His car arrives on the scene of the fire just as Alan has rescued Rose. Rapidly assembling several of November's gang, Marrophat gives them their ...See moreMarrophat, failing to overtake Judith in her flight, turns back to advise with Red November. His car arrives on the scene of the fire just as Alan has rescued Rose. Rapidly assembling several of November's gang, Marrophat gives them their instructions. The gunmen point Alan out to the police as the incendiary. Two policemen arrest him. Alan, suspecting a plot, breaks from his captors and takes to his heels, the mob following. Doubling and twisting through slum streets, Alan finally finds himself on the waterfront with every landward way of escape closed. Hard pressed, he seeks refuge in the rigging of a ship moored alongside. The gunmen pursue; he fights them off, kicking and pushing several into the water. But the odds proving too heavy, Alan dives from one of the yard arms and starts swimming for midstream. An aviator, Coast by name, sailing overhead in a hydroplane, observes the scene, and his sympathy excited for the gallant fight Alan puts up, drops to the water and rescues him. The day being slightly foggy, Coast loses his way in attempting to locate the Mineola aviation field and hangars. He lands with his passenger in a swamp and it is evening before he and Alan reach the field by motorcar. Hero Alan charters from Coast a new aeroplane with the understanding that it is to be held against his order. He then returns to New York. Meantime Barcus has arrived in New York and learned from Digby, Jr., that Alan is being married to Rose in New Jersey. He starts over in the hope of being in at the finish; fate brings him on the scene of the tenement fire just as Rose is being kidnapped by Marrophat in his motorcar. Barcus pursues in a taxicab. Marrophat takes Rose home, interrupting a violent scene between Judith and her father, Judith having got home a few minutes earlier. She has been lying to Trine, trying to persuade him of Marrophat's treachery. But Marrophat's true story of the events of the morning, backed by Rose's testimony, convinces Trine that Judith is no longer trustworthy. He orders his two daughters to their rooms. At Marrophat's suggestion Trine decides to take Rose by special train to Chicago and points west as a lure to get Alan away from New York into a section of the country where the prejudices of the police are a less serious handicap to their designs. Barcus, by shadowing the messenger, learns of the plan and by bribing the porter and brakeman, substitutes as a porter. He manages to let Alan know of the affair before the train leaves. Alan goes to Trine's house and discovers Judith a prisoner in her own room. Judith lends a willing hand and the two, making for Van Cortlandt Park, find Coast and the aeroplane. They start the pursuit and arrive in Chicago the next morning. They learn that Trine's special has passed through on time. They renew the chase, finally overtaking the special on the plains of Illinois. Alan, with the binoculars, recognize Barcus on the rear platform. Barcus sees the aeroplane and suspects that Alan is attempting a rescue. He hastens to warn Rose. Trine, Marrophat et al., sight the biplane a little later, but as they do so, it develops engine trouble and sinks to the earth. They dismiss it from their thoughts, taking no more precaution than to station the two gunmen as guards on the front and back platform when they go to bed for the night. The biplane comes to earth near Kansas City. Leaving Coast with instructions to effect repairs and follow on. Alan and Judith engage a light engine. On this they pursue Trine's special. Barcus sees their headlight drawing nearer, and suspects that the moment of rescue is at hand. He proceeds to overpower and throw off the train the gunman on the rear platform, then he boots the front platform guard off into the night and hastens to warn Rose. Both are waiting on the back platform when the light engine overtakes the special and runs up close enough for Rose and Barcus to make the leap from the back platform to the cowcatcher. Marrophat and Trine rouse to the situation just in time to complicate the danger. Barcus manages to hold the back door against them until Alan helps Rose from the platform to the light engine, then, forced to release it, makes his own escape in a living leap under fire. The brakeman of the special frightened by the pistol duel, signals for full speed ahead, and the special lights out like a scared jackrabbit, Trine's protests to the contrary notwithstanding. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Cleo Madison Rose Trine / Judith Trine Rose Trine / Judith Trine See fewer	Her Bitter Cup (1916)
George Larkin Alan Law Alan Law See fewer	The Lurking Peril (1919)

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