The Wandering Horde (1916)
The brakes are applied. With a screech the long freight comes to a halt, and from one of the cars a band of hobos scamper to the ground and leave the yards to find a secluded place where they may eat. A newcomer enters the scene, young, handsome, frank, but lacking the signs of poverty which distinguish the others. When they hear his hard luck story, he is welcomed as one of the band and invited to partake of their frugal meal. Wood, the stranger, soon makes friends with the "hobos," especially a man named Brown, who tells him his tale. He had been unemployed for a long time, he says, and was unable to support his wife and daughter. Then when he obtained a position in a town far away, and by dint of careful saving, has amassed a fortune of $100. He felt reluctant to spend part of it on fare, and had chosen the "side door pullman" as a cheaper conveyance than the real way. When the trip is resumed, Wood goes on with the others. In a wreck, he suffers injuries and Brown takes him to his house to be cared for by his wife. After his recovery, Wood becomes fond of his new friends. Lola, Brown's daughter, finds herself fast losing her heart to Wood, and is disappointed on learning through a newspaper clipping that he is really wealthy and is not one of them. She takes the paper to Wood and shows him the clipping, which says that he has been ruined by a reversal in the stock market. Suspecting that this is the work of Travers, who has been working against him, Wood starts out for revenge. He learns that Travers is out driving in an auto and follows him, but discovers that vengeance has been taken from his hands when Travers' machine is destroyed in a railroad blast, and all its occupants are killed. Wood now completes his book on "The Wandering Horde" for which he had been obtaining material when he sojourned with the "hobos," and the sale of the work nets him a tidy sum. With this money he returns to Brown and becomes his partner for the purpose of pushing his invention. Still Wood feels that there is a void somewhere which he cannot analyze, but when he does analyze it, he has no difficulty in persuading Lola to fill it, by becoming his partner for life.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Eugene Mullin | Director |
| James Oliver Curwood | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Evart Overton | |
| Denton Vane | |
| Adele Kelly | |
| Edward Elkas |
