Not for Blanche Sweet the hysterics and angry gesticulations - she was too sensible and modern a girl. Maybe that's why Griffith wasn't that keen to keep and develop her talents, she impressed in these early shorts by her very lack of artifice. Here she is a fisher-maiden in love with a fisherman (Del Henderson) and unwittingly walks into a smuggler's den and they are very keen to silence her (Alfred Paget is one). She is then dragged onto a boat but the crew stage an uprising and Blanche and the gang leader become trapped in the small cabin.
The "lesser evil" is what Blanche has to decided - death by the ringleaders hands or a "fate worse than death" when the mutinous crew break down the door - being a Griffith film, death is the only answer!! But wait, here comes the fisherman on a motor launch to break up the treachery and in return for saving her life, Blanche creates a diversion while the gang leader escapes and swims for shore!! There is an enigmatic ending as Blanche looks through binoculars at the escapee running up the beach suggesting that she has sympathy with him.
Mae Marsh has a small part as the lively sister. Not one of Griffith's more memorable movies!!
The "lesser evil" is what Blanche has to decided - death by the ringleaders hands or a "fate worse than death" when the mutinous crew break down the door - being a Griffith film, death is the only answer!! But wait, here comes the fisherman on a motor launch to break up the treachery and in return for saving her life, Blanche creates a diversion while the gang leader escapes and swims for shore!! There is an enigmatic ending as Blanche looks through binoculars at the escapee running up the beach suggesting that she has sympathy with him.
Mae Marsh has a small part as the lively sister. Not one of Griffith's more memorable movies!!