Unprotected
Cast & Crew
James Young
Blanche Sweet
Theodore Roberts
Ernest Joy
Walter Long
Mrs. Lewis Mccord
Film Details
Synopsis
After her parents die, Barbara King, a Southerner, lives with her uncle Rufus Jamison, who rails that Barbara's mother ruined her life by marrying an artist and forces Barbara to do domestic work. Barbara enters her father's last work in an exhibition and meets artist Gordon Carroll and his father, the governor. When Jamison discovers Barbara's secret attic studio and destroys her father's statue, Barbara hits him with a candlestick, whereupon he falls through a trap door and dies. Barbara is convicted, sentenced and sent to work at Joshua Craig's turpentine plant where black prisoners labor under harsh conditions. After she attempts to protect convict Tony Salvarro from a beating, she is tied to a tree. Taken into Craig's house to replace his convict mistress, Barbara plots a mutiny with the other prisoners. When the governor inspects the camp, Craig hides Barbara's identity. Later, Craig drunkenly attacks her, but Gordon, who is hunting nearby, arrives to rescue her. Tony sacrifices his life for Barbara, while the prisoners mutiny and kill Craig. Barbara then convinces the governor to have the conditions of the camp ameliorated. Pardoned, she marries Gordon and they have a child.
Director
James Young
Cast
Blanche Sweet
Theodore Roberts
Ernest Joy
Walter Long
Mrs. Lewis Mccord
Robert Gray
Jane Wolff
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
According to the Community Motion Picture Bureau, the film was based on New York Governor Whitman's statement against the farming of prisoners to private parties. A genuine turpentine plant in the South was used in the film. No reviews were located for this film. Sources conflict concerning the author of the story on which this film was based: material in the Paramount studio records indicates that it was based on a story by Beatrice C. de Mille and Leighton Osmun entitled "Unconquered," while information in the copyright descriptions indicates that James Hatton was the author. Unconquered was the title of a film released in 1917, which was based on a story by de Mille and Osmun entitled "The Conflict."
