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DRAMATIC. S. F. 2553-2560.
A LIFE FOE A LIFE. Approximate Length, 725 feet.
Price, $87.00.
A military story of intensely dramatic interest and a production which comes at a most seasonable time, when military life and all military scenes and events possess a peculiar fascination for the theatre going public and nothing which can be offered meets with such universal favor as incidents of this description.
A Life For a Life or Death by the Hand of God opens in most realistic fashion with "Guard Mount" at the military prison of Yuma on the arid plains of Arizona.
The relief is marshalled in front of the military barracks; the usual close inspection of arms and accouterments is made and right about face the guard marches off to the prison to relieve their comrades on duty.
The military introduction is, however, simply a preface to the love story which follows: whicli opens with a meeting between the lieutenant of the troop and his sweetheart, the cannon and general surroundings in the background maintaining the military character of the story. It seems, however, that the girl has already attracted the observation of one of the enlisted men, who appears on ths scene and, with insulting language, reproaches the lieutenant. This is bitterly resented, and a fight ensues between them, when the soldier who has been knocked down, realizing that in striking an officer on duty, he has incurred the penalty of a disgraceful dismissal from the service and desperately anxious to avoid this draws a knife and, stabbing the officer to the heart, makes his escape, leaving the poor girl lamenting and heart broken over the body of her lover.
The young lady's cries bring a number of the officer's troop to her aid and, enraged at the death of their lieutenant, they immediately start in pursuit of the murderer, who, in endeavoring to effect his escape, leads his pursuers through scenery which is alternately wild and picturesque. At first it seems that he must succeed in eluding them, and at one time, being more closely pressed by the swiftest of his fellow soldiers, he gains temporary safety by dealing him a murderous blow, but, finally, exhausted and disheartened, he is captured and led off to the military prison to await his court martial for murder and desertion.
The prisoner being confined in his cell, the scene changes to the exterior of the prison, where the interesting evolution of relief and guard mount outside the prison is seen, giving the audience a glimpse of real soldier life in barrack such as can seldom be obtained, and never presented before in a moving picture.
The interior of the prison is shown with a realistic fidelity and attention to detail which is the acme of moving picture art, and the
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