Northern Lights
Cast & Crew
Edgar Lewis
William H. Tooker
Harry Knowles
Harry Springler
George De Carlton
William F. Sorrell
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Synopsis
Following the shocking news that her husband, a U.S. Army colonel, has been wounded, Mrs. Gray gives birth to Wallace, a boy who bears the mark of his father's injury on his forehead and is cowardly by nature. In college he is ridiculed for his timidity, but is befriended by Swiftwind, an Indian boy who is studying medicine. Upon their graduation, Swiftwind is given a post as an army surgeon at Fort Terry where Colonel Gray is also stationed. Wallace meanwhile escorts his father's wards, Florence and Dorothy Dunbar, to the fort, but when they are menaced by marauding Indians, he flees. Despite his behavior, neither sister is injured, but Wallace cannot face Florence, whom he loves. Hoping to erase the memory of the incident, Wallace enlists in another regiment, but again retreats from danger. Colonel Gray, unaware that the coward is his son, sentences the deserter to death. Later, however, following many complications, Wallace is able to redeem himself by saving the fort from an Indian attack about which he was warned by Swiftwind.
Director
Edgar Lewis
Cast
William H. Tooker
Harry Knowles
Harry Springler
George De Carlton
William F. Sorrell
Iva Shepard
Anna Laughlin
Katherine La Salle
David Wall
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