Between the Rifle Sights (1913)
Bob, an honest country lad, falls in love with Annie, the daughter of the richest man in that little village. All goes well until Ralph Gunter comes to town. He poses as a gentleman, but has the unenviable handicap of a criminal record. He wins the unsophisticated Annie without much effort, and she turns down Bob without a struggle, dazzled by the grand air of the new man from the big town. The latter has hardly set his matrimonial line before he receives a letter from a former pal in crime threatening him with exposure unless he "comes through" for $500. In desperation to hold what he already has and the effort to get more, he contemplates the plan of robbing old Sharp. Annie's father, on the night of the day he collected his rents. Sharp is a miserly old man and secretes his money about his house, instead of trusting it to a bank. Bob discovers Ralph trying to break into the house and in the encounter that follows Bob is downed and Ralph escapes. The former is taken for the would-be robber and is next sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. On his release, he vows to kill Ralph, who married Annie the day he was sentenced. Ralph, a sick and broken man, goes to the mountains to try and recover his health, accompanied by his daughter, who strongly resembles her dead mother. Ralph, now prematurely old, has been out of confinement long enough to wear off the prison pallor, and is a dead shot now, well healed for vengeance. As the pair come driving up the mountain trail. Bob keeps Ralph covered with a rifle from his ambush. Just as he is about to press the trigger and send the bullet home, he sees reflected in the face of the girl, the memory of her mother, whom he loved in the lonely years that have gone. A flood of remembrances overcome him, his gun, the instrument of vengeance, drops from his nerveless fingers and he allows his long, bitterly cherished plan to pass.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Edward LeSaint | Director |
| William E. Wing | Writer |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Guy Oliver | |
| Stella Razeto | |
| George Hernandez | |
| Roy Watson |
