Based on something by James Oliver Curwood (opening credits are missing and I don't see anything with these characters in his published stories), the story is set in Quebec (though we have North-West Mounted Police) and follows bad guy Jacques Doré (William Tooker) who wears a rattlesnake amulet and is running from the Mounties when he comes upon a cabin and asks for shelter. The couple (Gladys Leslie, Fred C. Jones) are a tad naive but don't catch on until Doré attacks Gladys. They have a big fight and throw him out.....
Doré then comes upon happy old 'Poleon (Cesare Gravina) and his half-Indian daughter Oachi (Hope Sutherland) and pulls the same thing on them. Ultimately he ends up back at Gladys Leslie's camp when the husband is away and kidnaps her but she escapes by jumping off a cliff into the Saco River rapids.
Some beautiful photography (Sebago Lake, Maine) and the performances are quite good. The city sequence is of Montreal. The French broken English intertitles get to be a bit wearying. Gladys Leslie is very good in this one.
Doré then comes upon happy old 'Poleon (Cesare Gravina) and his half-Indian daughter Oachi (Hope Sutherland) and pulls the same thing on them. Ultimately he ends up back at Gladys Leslie's camp when the husband is away and kidnaps her but she escapes by jumping off a cliff into the Saco River rapids.
Some beautiful photography (Sebago Lake, Maine) and the performances are quite good. The city sequence is of Montreal. The French broken English intertitles get to be a bit wearying. Gladys Leslie is very good in this one.