The Power of Love (1912)
Old Captain Blount, having retired from the sea, has taken his abode among the fishermen on the coast to stay near the ocean. He had been a tyrannical captain, and now no longer having a crew to dominate, he tries to direct his two daughters' lives in the same manner. Among the young fishermen, Bob Newcomer has found favor with the old "salt" and when he expresses a desire to marry the captain's older daughter Martha, the father tells her to prepare to wed the fisherman. Upon a cliff ranch, two young cowboys, Jack Woomer and Pete Neville, are employed. They met Martha and Mabel Blount and learned to love them. Bob Newcomer discovers this and notifies the old captain. Together, they interrupt one of the meetings and the father upbraids his daughters. But the cowboys are not resourceless. They go to the village where they secure licenses and await the arrival of the circuit-riding minister, who makes periodical trips in the vicinity. On the day of his arrival they secure his service, call the girls, and are married in the open air. Newcomer has been watching and hurries to the captain to tell him his daughters have gotten married. Pete Neville and his bride start down to procure the irate father's forgiveness; Newcomer raises his gun and kills the young bridegroom. Startled at the sound of firing, Jack Woomer and his new wife hurry down and come upon the tragedy. Newcomer and the captain have called a number of fishermen, who take Martha from her young husband by force and promise him the same fate that Neville received if he ever comes that way again. Woomer returns to the ranch and calls on the cattlemen to return with him and avenge their pal's death. They start for the beach and are soon engaged in conflict. Mabel, crazed with grief over her husband's death, wanders away to the treacherous rocks in the ocean. While the conflict is on, Martha sees her husband on the cliffs and hurries to him, followed by the ever-watchful Newcomer. Woomer and Newcomer fight and Woomer succeeds in throwing his adversary over the cliffs. Reunited, the husband and wife return to her father's home and put an end to the useless warfare, but they are too late. The old captain had fought his last fight and they find him lying in the doorway. Sick at heart they wander towards the beach, seeking Mabel and at an ebb tide they find her where the treacherous ocean had thrown her, for she has gone to join her husband in the land beyond.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Allan Dwan | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| J. Warren Kerrigan | |
| Pauline Bush | |
| Jack Richardson | |
| Jessalyn Van Trump |
