The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

Vol. 14, No. 12 The Moving Picture Weekly 39 I in '''Conflict Tremendous Universa I-' Jewel JOHN Remalie, a religious young man, gifted in prayer and given to a piety that smacked of hypocrisy, stayed in the Northwoods while his brother Henry went to the city to live. John never married. Once he had planned to marry and had built a magnificent stone castle to house his bride. Suddenly, without warning or reason, he broke off his engagement and altered the appearance of the house. He made it a grim, prison like structure and moved in with a Miss Labo, daughter of a camp cook, as his housekeeper. She was a silent woman, as grim and forbidding as his house, and for twentyseven years she had said no unnecessary word to him. In the city Henry had married, and of the union there came a beautiful girl, Dorcas, who grew to eighteen in luxury, the tempestuous blood of the forest coursing unseen in her veins under a veneer of education and culture. When the will of Henry Remalie was read it provided that his daughter should become the ward of his brother and stay within his house until she had become of age. Miss Labo met her at the door, sullenly. An hour later John Remalie arrived. They sat down to a frugal meal, unctiously eaten with a pall of hypocritical piety hanging over the forbidding room like a shroud. Dorcas was miserably unhappy and rebellious. In a few days, Dorcas, with feminine instinct, senses that something is wrong. Into the town comes Jevons, a splendid figure of a young man, but a person of mystery. No one knows why he is there and every one likes him for his cheerful manner and his open frankness in everything except hiTOself. Particularly interested in Jevons is Sloan, Remalie's camp foreman, who wants Dorcas. On a pretense he picks a fight with Jevons and is thrashed for his trouble. Accidentally pRisciLLA Dean Itl (3. g/'>'/'fl^"g scene from "CONFLICT "w c/^/i/f^sAi Dorcas meets Jevons, and while despising lumberjacks, is surprised at his apparent education. The girl overhears a conversation, the first in twenty seven years, between Miss Labo and Remalie, in which the housekeeper refers to a son which she bore him years before. Dorcas thinks it is Jevons and later repulses him. Remalie leaves for Boston, and the housekeeper, to get his fortune for her son as the only heir, unsuccessfully tries to poison Dorcas. Dorcas leaves the grim house and goes to live with the three Ginger brothers, who swear to protect her from all harm. From them she learns that Jevons is not an illegitimate child and pledges her aid to him. Remalie returns, discovers the girl is missing, and thinks the housekeeper has killed her and is silent. Suddenly he learns the girl is alive and leads a posse to capture her. Believing that Jevons has been murdered, the girl takes command of his crew and puts through the log-drive as she had promised him that she would do should death overtake him. Dorcas' gang is attacked by the woodsmen in Remalie's outfit. To forestall them she blows up the dam. Millions of tons of huge logs crash through the valley, sweeping all before them. Dorcas is told of Jevon's danger — he is bound in a cabin directly in the path of the onrushing logs. After a death-defying race with the foaming avalanche she reaches Jevons and releases him as the water's fury wrecks the cabin. Jevons and Dorcas are carried down the river beneath the grinding logs towards a huge waterfaJl. Nearer and nearer they come to its mighty brink. By a herculean effort Dorcas manages to get the injured Jevons to the bank of the river as he is about to go over the falls. Remalie marries his housekeeper and Dorcas weds Jevons. AT A GLANCE TITLE— "Conflict" STAR— Priscilla Dean. PREVIOUS SUCCESSES— "The Virgin of Stamboul," "Outside the Law" and "Reputation." DIRECTED BY— Stuart Paton. SUPPORTING CAST— Herbert Rawlinson, Edward Connelly, Martha Mattox and L. C. Shumway. STORY BY— Clarence Budington Kelland, a serial in the "Red Book." LOCALE— The Canadian Northwoods. PHOTOGRAPHY BY— Harold Janes. THUMB-NAIL THEME— The story of Dorcas Remalie and her life in the dismal mansion of her strange uncle. How Dorcas is saved from death at the hands of the silent, fiendish housekeeper, who cherishes a burning hidden hate. How Dorcas helps Jevons, a young lumberman, triumph over her despotic uncle and clears up a sinister mystery. ADVERTISING PUNCHES 1 — The dynamiting of a log-jam, an exciting incident in British Columbia which will give the most blase picture-goers an additional thrill. 2 — The spectacular success of Priscilla Dean in "Outside the Law" and "Reputation." 3 — The exceptional importance and popularity of the entire cast. 4 — Story written by Clarence Budington Kelland and appeared in serial form in "Red Book Magazine." PRINCIPAL PLAYERS Dorcas Remalie Priscilla Dean John Remalie Ed Connelly Miss Labo Martha Mattox Jevons Herbert Rawlinson Mark Sloan L. C. Shumway Orrin Lakin Sam Allen