The Darkening Trail
Cast & Crew
William S. Hart
William S. Hart
Enid Markey
George Fisher
Nona Thomas
Louise Glaum
Film Details
Synopsis
Jack Sturgess' father threatens to disinherit him if he does not marry Ruth Wells, a shop girl whom he has made pregnant. Jack then leaves the East and settles in Alaska, where he meets and marries Ruby McGraw. Soon after the wedding, Jack begins to see other women, neglecting his young wife, and one stormy evening, she finds him drunk by the side of the road. Ruby contracts pneumonia, but Jack only pretends to go to find the doctor, knowing that he will be a free man if his wife dies. Yukon Ed, a prospector who is in love with Ruby, discovers that she is near death, but by the time he returns with the doctor, it is too late. Ed finds Jack and sends him to join Ruby on her journey down "the darkening trail."
Director
William S. Hart
Cast
William S. Hart
Enid Markey
George Fisher
Nona Thomas
Louise Glaum
Film Details
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Notes
This film was re-issued in 1918 by W. H. Productions under the title The Hell-Hound of Alaska. Plot synopses of the 1918 re-release differ in several aspects from those of the 1915 release. Modern sources include in the cast Milton Ross (Mr. Wells) and Roy Laidlaw (Mr. Sturgess, Sr.). One modern source also states that Clifford Smith was the film's co-director with Hart and that J. G. Hawks was the scenario writer.
