Name: Hearts and the Highway
Released: 1915
Cast: Lillian Walker, Darwin Karr, Donald Hall, L. Rogers Lytton, Charles Kent

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jun 1915

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Vitagraph Co. of America; Blue Ribbon; A Broadway Star Feature

Distribution Company

V-L-S-E, Inc.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel Hearts and the Highway by Cyrus Townsend Brady (New York, 1911).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

After the Earl of Clanranald is arrested for conspiracy, his daughter, Lady Katherine, pleads in court to save him from the block. Failing this, she dons male clothing, a mustache, and goatee to intercept the King's messenger, Sir Harry Richmond, who is carrying the death warrant. After they drink ale together at an inn, she is forced, to keep up appearances, to share his room. Failing to get the papers that night, she waylays Sir Harry the next morning, stuns him with a bullet, and takes the warrant. When Sir Harry awakens, he finds his assailant unconscious from a sword wound, and discovers that she is a woman. In love, Sir Harry reports that the warrant was stolen. When he is not believed and is subsequently arrested, Lady Katherine, disguised as a man, offers the King ten thousand pounds for her father's pardon and Sir Harry's release. The King releases them, but discovering Lady Katherine's sex, he abducts her. Sir Harry then saves her and they sail to freedom.