Lightning Bryce (1919)
Stars: Ann
Little, Jack Hoxie, Paul Hurst
Director: Paul
Hurst
Writers: Joe
Brandt (story), Harvey Gates (scenario)
Genre:
Adventure/Horror/Romance
Produced: National
Film Corporation of America
Distributed:
Arrow Film Corporation
Time: 300 min (15
Episode serial)
Rating: Passed
Status:
Plot
Two prospectors, one the father of Skye
"Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a
large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each
sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good
fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a
piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a
lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them,
the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian
approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man
to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning's father see his partner as a
wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition
but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with
instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate. The sheriff also informs Kate
that Lightning's father killed her father...
