The Plow Woman
Cast & Crew
Charles Swickard
Mary Maclaren
H. C. De More
Marie Hazelton
L. C. Shumway
Kingsley Benedict
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
After her mother's death, Mary not only becomes the household slave of her overbearing father, Scottish American Andy MacTavish, but also becomes a mother to her little sister Ruth at their home on the Dakota plains. Years later, Jack Fraser, the son of a surgeon at the nearby fort and a steady visitor at the MacTavish home, secretly marries Ruth although he is deeply loved by Mary. Sometime later, a baby is born to Ruth, and Mary, doubting her sister's assertion that she is married to Fraser, takes the child to the fort to find out the truth from Fraser himself. Andy, believing the baby to be Mary's, orders her from the house. In the meantime, the Indians go on the warpath and Mary is surrounded. Buck Mathews, a half-breed who has lusted after Mary, sees her with the child, and pitying the helplessness of the girl, leaves the Indians to protect Mary. Fraser arrives just as Buck is fatally wounded, rescues Mary, who forgives Buck before he dies. Fraser now acknowledges that he is the husband of Ruth.
Director
Charles Swickard
Cast
Mary Maclaren
H. C. De More
Marie Hazelton
L. C. Shumway
Kingsley Benedict
Hector V. Sarno
Clara Horton
Eddie Polo
George Hupp
Tommy Burns
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Exhibitor's Trade Review commented, "This is a picture that will particularly interest all the Scots. It would be well to specially circularize all Scottish societies, clubs and organizations telling them just why they will like this picture and a bit of the story. The name of Mary MacLaren should be featured.... The house staff could be dressed in kilts and a man sent around town to distribute advertising matter, costumed the same way." In a synopsis of the film appearing in Moving Picture World, the decision of the half-breed Buck to turn against the Indians about to kill Mary and to rescue her occurs because when he sees the child she is carrying, "his white blood [is] aroused."
