The Trap (1914)
Rita Hermanez, daughter of Gen. Hermanez, commandant of a Mexican military post, is loved by two men. One is Capt. Ramon Orizaba, an officer in her father's command; the other Charles Ross, a young American traveler. Orizaba, being ordered by Hermanez to escort a shipment of gold by pack train into the mountain, determines to put his love to the test before leaving on the journey. Rita repulses him and turns to Ross, confessing her love for the latter, but Rita's father, when Ross asks for the girl's hand, flies into a rage that his daughter should wish to marry a foreigner and tells Ross to leave town within twenty-four hours or be imprisoned. Orizaba determined to seize for himself the gold entrusted to his care. He plots with the leader of a band of Mexican bandits and plans to betray his own men. By agreement he leads them into an ambush set by the bandits, where they are all killed but one, who escapes and carries back news of Orizaba's treachery. Ross is unwilling to give up Rita, whom he believes loves him, and next day secretly sends her a note asking her to elope with him. He entrusts the note to Rita's maid, who reads it. then delivers it, and betrays Rita and Ross to Gen. Hermanez. The latter, in a rage, calls an officer and directs him to watch the house, which Ross has appointed as a trysting place, and to arrest and imprison the man who meets Rita. Rita goes to keep the appointment. Meanwhile Orizaba, conscious that the escape of the lone survivor has made him an outlaw determines to seize the girl who scorned his love. He knows that the summer house is her favorite spot in her father's grounds and goes there to wait for her, but does not arrive until the officer and his men have secreted themselves to watch for the man who shall meet Gen. Hermanez's daughter. Rita arrives at the summer house and Orizaba attempts to seize her. The soldiers rush from their hiding place, capture him and drag him off to prison. A moment later Ross arrives and escorts Rita to his automobile, which is waiting outside the grounds. In it they start for the border line. Hermanez, upon being informed that the man he wanted has been imprisoned, goes to the prison to gloat over him. He is thunderstruck when Orizaba, instead of Ross, is brought before him. Finding that his daughter has disappeared he sets out on horseback in pursuit accompanied by two soldiers, but Ross and Rita in the automobile outdistance them and Hermanez gives up the pursuit at the border line. Later, in the prison yard, before a stone wall facing a firing squad Orizaba atones for his treachery.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Paul Powell | Director |
| Will M. Ritchey | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Lee Shumway | |
| Velma Whitman | |
| George Routh | |
| Webster Campbell |
