At the Trail's End (1911)
Sheriff Willoughby is the avowed sweetheart of Ethel, the daughter of Boss Boigne, the saloon keeper. He is telling her of his love, when Portuguese Pete breaks in upon them with the tale of the murder he has witnessed. At the scene of the conflict, the Sheriff finds a mitten beside the dead man, and his hardening features indicated the enormous task awaiting. Again at the saloon, in answer to the trembling inquiry of the saloon keeper and his wife, the Sheriff sternly tells them that the murderer is their son and that he must arrest him. On fleeing from the scene, the son had hastened home and was aided by his people to escape. His safety was assured at the border, which was two hundred miles distant through ice and snow. While the Sheriff is questioning his parents, the son is skating swiftly over the ice. At Pete's suggestion, he and the Sheriff secure ice skates wherewith to overtake the fugitive. Ethel overhears the proposed chase, and skates out before them to anticipate them and warn her brother. They are now in full pursuit following the ice cuts, which are first confusing where the girl had crossed and then again clear. Night falls upon the fleeing man and his followers, but setting fire to a knot of pine, the Sheriff skates along with it, held low upon the ice, where shines the thin white trail of the man ahead. Cold and starving, the Sheriff at last sees the fugitive and makes an extra spurt when he sees him fall. Barely able to reach him, the Sheriff lifts him and arrests him. With a moan, the captive turns a frozen agonized face towards the Sheriff, who looks and sees it is the woman he loves. So at the trail's end he picked up a little frozen body and skated over the miles of ice until her home is reached, where staggering with the warmth of the home, the old saloon keeper and his wife restore them to life and mutual happiness. And, a man in a woman's skirt crosses the border to another land, a land of judgment.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
