Love That Never Fails (1912)
Paul Burns lives with his wife and five-year-old baby girl in a snug little cottage up among the hills of the Northwest. Paul, who is a hunter and trapper, is passionately fond of his little girl Ruth; his love for his wife is also ideal. Into this happy home comes a human serpent, a boa constrictor of the human species. The woman is charmed by his basilisk eyes, and yielding to the temptation she suffers herself to be led off, feeling in the glow of his slimy encircling coils a false passion that is to compensate for the loss of husband and little baby girl. This monster who comes into the paradise of the poor trapper is a foreman on a ranch of old Denizot; his name is Pollard. A number of his cohorts accompany him on the fateful morning he carries off the wife of Burns. Just previous to his doing so, the husband had kissed his spouse good-bye, and putting his little Ruth on his back, had sallied forth with his gun to bring down a bird or bag a hare for the midday repast. Having proceeded on his journey quite a way, Pollard, bethought himself of an act worthy of his type, and dispatched one of the cowboys with a hastily scribbled message to be tacked on the home he had just destroyed. When Burns and the child returned there was no wife's voice to greet him. He could not understand it, and while puzzling over it, a rude knock came to the door. It was the cowboy who had pinned the fatal note and then rode swiftly away. When Burns went out on the porch no one was there. He espied the note, and when he read it his heart almost burst. He grabbed the baby and rushed within. Through sheer exhaustion from worriment, Burns fell asleep. When he awoke with a start, his little Ruth was gone; she had wandered out into the woods, calling and searching for her mother. In a mad frenzy her distracted father dashed after her, calling to her loudly as he followed her tracks. But long before, the child had fallen over a high rock. Then Providence intervened. Down at the ranch when Pollard and his crew arrived, a little baby ran forth to greet the wretch. The guilty mother then realized her own loss, the enormity of her sacrifice. In an instant she broke the fetters of her unholy alliance, and, defying interference, hugged the child to her and retraced her journey towards home. Long after, she sank from hunger and weakness upon the same rock over which her child had fallen. And here the distracted husband found her, and dashed her headlong over the ledge. Fortunately, what saved her baby and now saved her was a big snow-drift, into which she fell. Hours later, when she drugged herself homeward, the husband was amazed to see wife and child. The smiling countenance of his little Ruth reflected its purity in their hearts, and wife and husband became reconciled.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Ulysses Davis | Director |
| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
