The Call of the Heart (1914)
Carmencita, the flower-girl of the Cantina Del Toro, crouches, terrified, against a rock in a wild remote canyon in the Sierra Del Madre. Tauntingly, Don Raphael Dominguez gloats over the shrinking girl. In the background a wild-looking troop of brigands, vassals of the Don's, look on without a glance of pity for the girl, Don Dominguez is about to seize his helpless prey when all at once half a dozen figures appear behind the rocks. As many rifles are leveled at the heads of the outlaw band. The brigands have carelessly left their weapons where the newcomers can seize them. There is nothing but surrender for the rascals and they throw up their hands. The leader of the rescuers, Juan, takes Carmencita in his arms. Juan, a stalwart, the dashing and the accepted lover of Carmencita, is in reality the "dreamself" of Loco Juan, a deformed, despised, half-witted woodcutter, who secretly adores Carmencita, who has often protected him from brutal jests and cruel blows. After Carmencita has once again interposed between himself and the brutal Don, Loco Juan wanders forth on the mountainside and falls asleep under a bank of wild sun-flowers. He dreams that a kind fairy suddenly rises from the mist of a waterfall and transforms him into erect, good-looking Juan. As Juan he meets Carmencita and her brother Poncho. Carmencita returns the love he confesses. But Don Dominguez, by spying learns Juan's secret. He determines to abduct Carmencita. With this in view he journeys into the mountain fastness and retains Antonio Sanchez, the desperate leader of the banditti, to carry out his purposes. Carmencita is carried off. In the brigands' hiding place, Don Dominguez is gloating over his prize when Juan, Loco Juan, no longer, springs into view. In a desperate knife fight he beats Sanchez and, embracing Carmencita, carries her in his arms to safety. But Carmencita, in a fatal moment, takes from Juan's arm the silver talisman the good fairy who befriended him placed there. The spell is broken. Juan awakens. Once more, his cloud-palaces dissolved, he is the deformed, half-witted outcast.
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GenresDrama
Romance
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| E.D. Horkheimer | Producer |
| H.M. Horkheimer | Producer |
