The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

. 8 ■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY Service Page ior ^^Under Northern Lights" AT A GLANCE SUBJECT— "Under Northern Lights." LENGTH— Five Reels. FEATURED PLAYERS — Leonard Clapham, Virginia Faire, Wm. Buckley. DIRECTED BY— Jacques Jaccard. STORY BY— Jacques Jaccard. SCENARIO BY— Kay Harrison. SUPPORTING CAST— Ray Harrison, Herbert Bethew, Charles Brinley, Ben Corbett, Frank Staples, Oleta Ottis. LOCALE— The Canadian Northwest. TIME— The Present. THUMB-NAIL THEME— The story of a member of the Royal North West Mounted Police whose duty compels him to imprison the brother of the girl he loves; of the eternal struggle between love and duty, and between the forces of lawlessness and order. ADVERTISING PUNCHES 1 — The fame of Jacques Jaccard — author-director — who wrote and produced the story. 2 — Capitalize the fact tlxat Jaccard also wrote and directed "The Great Air Robbery," with Ormer Locklear. S — The presence in the cast of Virginia Faire, winner of last year's Fame and Fortune contest. 4 — The most terrific hand-to-hand combat staged for the screen in a long time. ■5 — The atmosphere of romance and adventure surrounding the Royal North West Mounted Police, who figure in the story. £ — Scenic backgrounds reflecting tne rugged beauty of the Canadian North Woods. 7 — Unique situations in which stirring drama shares attention with lively comedy. 8 — A cast of clever players, each chosen for his or her particular role. 9 — A faithful reproduction of a Hudson Bay trading post with its picturesque characters and surroundings. CAST Double Wilmer Paquette Douglas MacLeod .... William Buckley Jacques Foucharde Leonard Clapham Suzanne Foucharde Virginia Faire Abner Lee Herbert Bethew Louis La Roque _ Chas. Brinley Burke _ Ben Corbett Henry Foucharde Frank Staples Madge Carson Oleta Ottis Na-Fa-Kowa Kay Harrison THE STORY nOUGLAS MAC LEOD, a Constable of the Royal North West Mounted Police, stationed at Lebee, falls In love with Suzanne Foucharde. A short distance away lives Louis LaRoque, a professional gambler, and Madge Carson, his common-law wife. An Indian girl comes to find LaRoque, who had married and then deserted her. LaRoque refuses to take care of her and the baby. Broken hearted she lays the baby on the ground, and hides. Douglas finds the baby, and takes it to Suzanne. The Indian girl with a note from LaRoque, proving that he is the father of her child, clutched in her hands, jumps off a cliff. Suzanne agrees to take care of the baby until the Missionary comes, and Douglas leaves. In the meantime, Jacques Fou charde, Suzanne's brother comes back from the Yukon with a small fortune. LaRoque persuades him to play poker, hoping to make a cleaning. Jacques catches LaRoque and Madge cheating, and accuses them. A terrific fight starts. When the lights are lit, Jacques is gone, and LaRoque is on the floor dead. Jacques goes to Suzanne. Uncle Abner finds the dead Indian girl gone. Douglas finds that Jacques killed the gambler. When Douglas comes, Suzanne declares she has not seen Jacques. Douglas knows he is In the room. His duty is to arrest Jacques, but he loves the sister. Duty wins, however, and he arrests Jacques, although Suzanne says she win never see him again. He takes Jacques to his cabin and telling his men to go inside, for he wants to talk to Jacques alone for a moment. He tells Jacques that his horse can make the border in three hours. He turns his back, and Jacques jumps on the horse and g^allops out. Burke, hearing, runs out and fires, Douglas jumps in front and takes the bullet He falls in Burke's arms. He tells Burlcw to tell Suzanne that he did what she wanted him to, then falls back unconscious, apparently dead. Some time later, Douglas, still weak, comes into the woods with Suzanne. Burke gives him three stripes for his Sergeant Uniform, showing that Douglas is re-instated, and the escape forgotten. ADVERTISING DISPLAY LINES Suzanne was his shrine — his idol. One breath of calumny and he saw red. All else was forgotten. Only blood could efface the stain of the vile aspersion. One situation in "Under Northern Lights." Douglas MacLeod, of the Royal North West mounted police, had but two ambitions — a sergeant's stripes and the hand of Suzanne. Yet fate so stacked the cards that he could not win one without losing the other. How did it end? See "Under Northern Lights." Even in the Northern woods budding nature plays havoc with the heart of youth. See "Under Northern Lights." Jacques Jaccard, King of the Camera Thrill, who produced "The Great Air Robbery," wrote and directed "Under Northern Lights." There's a spinal throb in every foot. He was a coyote on the trail of humanity — ^sleeping by day — prowling by night — living upon the misery of his fellowmen. Such was Louis La Roque in 'Tinder Northern Lights."