The Cry of Conscience (1916)
Betty Oliver is the little crippled daughter of old Mort Oliver, a woodman. They are poverty-stricken and Oliver is continually hounded by a brutal woodsman called Rush Enderby. Oliver is compelled to part with the greater part of his pay to keep Rush Enderby from revealing something mysterious in the past. At the same time Tot Belden, the dissolute son of Sheriff Belden, in a neighboring district, is sent out as deputy sheriff to hunt for a man called Mort Oliver, who is wanted in Carolina for murder. Tot goes on the mission and becomes lost in Hell's Mountain. Betty finds him unconscious in the woods and cares for him. Her father is away for a week. Then she drags Tot into the cabin and here she nurses him. When he regains consciousness she gives him all the food her father left. When able to get up she takes him to a little grave and shows him an empty bird's nest, and tells him how Rush Enderby killed the mate, which she buried. She adds: "Any man as would kill a married bird would kill a man as quick, wouldn't he, Mister Tot?" The young sheriff sets out to find the man he is searching for and meets Rush Enderby in the woods. Rush tells him that the man he wants is Betty's father. Tot is crushed at this and goes into the woods to think things over, telling himself that he can not arrest the father of the poor little crippled girl. That night Rush attacks Betty in the cabin and her screams as she defends herself with her crutch bring Tot to her aid and a fight ensues. Dawn finds the room spattered with blood and Tot and Rush senseless, while Betty crouches outside trembling. Her father returns and finds them thus. Rush is dying and confesses that he himself is the murderer; that he killed the man in Carolina, and not Mort Oliver. Mort Oliver is at last free and some time later Betty's foot is cured and she finds happiness in the love of the young sheriff, who has become a man through the regenerating effect of her innocence and love.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Clifford S. Elfelt | Director |
| Olga Printzlau | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Vola Vale | |
| J. Edwin Brown | |
| G. Raymond Nye | |
| Marc B. Robbins |
