The Face of Fear (1913)
Red Eye and his pal Sleek Face, two Indians of the Blackfoot tribe, steal a couple of ponies from a settler. One settler sees the Indians making off with the ponies and notifies the military authorities at the post. Sergeant Colton and Trooper Mulligan of the cavalry start after the culprits and trail them to the Indian village. They are met by the chief and the tribe that swarms out from the tepees and surrounds them. Bear Paw, chief of the Blackfeet, refuses to surrender the horse thieves and intimates that to attempt to take them by force might be fatal or mean war. The chief finally says that Red Eye and Sleek Face shall go up on a nearby cliff and that if the troopers can take them, all will be well. To this the troopers and the tribe agree. The culprits take their positions and on a signal, the troopers start from the Indian encampment, followed by the tribe, to see the battle. The troopers are armed with rifles, revolvers and knives; the Indians with rifles and knives. The tribe stands across the wide divide and sees the two white men struggling over the perilous edges of the cliff, pursuing the fleeing Indians and exchanging rifle shots. Sleek Face is killed. He rolls down the cliff, scattering a great shower of slag and rocks. From where the tribe stands he looks like a tiny fly against the steep sides of nature's towering eminence. Trooper Mulligan gets a bullet in his right wrist and abandons the chase. He lies upon a part of the cliff which commands a range of the course taken by the Indian and when Sergeant Colton is about to he killed by a knife stroke from Red Eye, he disarms the Indian with a rifle shot. Red Eye becomes panic-stricken. As he peers over the precipitous cliff and looks back at his pursuers, he shows the face of fear. He makes his way to the tribe. Instead of being received with open arms he is reviled for his cowardice. He is handed over to the troopers by the chief and his own mother, who praises the two soldiers for their bravery.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| William J. Bauman | Director |
| William MacLeod Raine | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Otto Lederer | |
| George Kunkel | |
| Thomas Colmensil | |
| George Cooper |
