The Buzzard's Shadow
Cast & Crew
Thomas Ricketts
Harold Lockwood
May Allison
William Stowell
Harry Von Meter
Alice Ann Rooney
Film Details
Synopsis
Sergeant Barnes, a U.S. Army scout at a desert post, befriends and comes to love Alice Corbett, a widow with a little daughter, who launders and cooks at the post. At a ball celebrating Colonel Sears' birthday, Barnes sees Dr. Deschamps, the Army physician, flirting with Mrs. Sears. After Barnes sees them riding together, he demands that Deschamps resign or face exposure. When Sears sends Barnes on a mission across the desert, Deschamps poisons his horse's sugar, while the half-breed Unitah, whom Barnes knocked down for mistreating a horse, follows Barnes and as he sleeps, replaces his canteen water with sand. Driven insane by thirst and the circling buzzards, Barnes wanders until he falls at a railroad track, where he is rescued by a train crew. After he recovers from amnesia upon seeing the American flag, Barnes wires his post. Deschamps and Unitah flee, but Barnes finds them and they fight. After soldiers shoot Unitah and arrest Deschamps, Barnes is commended for bravery. He then marries Alice.
Director
Thomas Ricketts
Cast
Harold Lockwood
May Allison
William Stowell
Harry Von Meter
Alice Ann Rooney
Dick La Reno
Betty Hart
Virginia Fordyce
Crew
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Notes
Some scenes in this film were shot at the San Diego Military Reservation. U.S. troops appeared in the film. The film was re-released by Arrow Film Corp. in 1918 in a version re-edited at the labs of the American Film Co. under the supervision of W. E. Shallenberger, the president of Arrow. The re-edited version was entitled The Shadow of Fear.
