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Northern Lights (1914)
Drama

Northern Lights (1914)

Drama

Captain Gray, of the United States Army, detailed to quell the Indian uprising, is wounded. A courier is dispatched to Gray's home with the news. Mrs. Gray, about to become a mother, receives a violent shock at the recital of the details ...See moreCaptain Gray, of the United States Army, detailed to quell the Indian uprising, is wounded. A courier is dispatched to Gray's home with the news. Mrs. Gray, about to become a mother, receives a violent shock at the recital of the details of her husband's injury by the courier. The child born at this inopportune time is Wallace Gray. The prenatal influence exercised over the child at the time of his mother being informed of her husband's injury marks him as a coward. The report of a shot or the sound of an explosion throws the lad into spasms of fear. He is sent to college and there forms a strong comradeship with Swiftwind, an Indian, sent by his tribe to be educated. Wallace also forms a strong attachment for Florence Dunbar, a ward of his father, who is now Colonel Gray. Swiftwind is made acquainted with the moral defect inherent in Wallace and pities and protects him whenever the lad is made the subject of the jeers of his friends because of his born defect. Swiftwind becomes a graduate physician and receives a commission as assistant army surgeon, detailed to Fort Terry, in command of Colonel Gray. His immediate superior is Dr. Sherwood, an unscrupulous man. Florence Dunbar and Wallace Gray, traveling in a stagecoach to Fort Terry, are attacked by Indians. Wallace, with a cringing fear, deserts his companion, who is saved only by the timely arrival of Dr. Sherwood and troops. Sherwood marries Florence, nothing more being heard of Wallace, who, however, enlists in another regiment under General Crook, deserts under fire, and ultimately surrenders himself to his father, in the hope that he will be condemned to death. The boy, however, is sentenced to the "pyramids." While working under "ball and chain" he hears that his father and a small band of Americans are hemmed in a canyon by Indians with no hope of relief. The latter, having observed the Northern Lights in the heavens, follow their belief that the "Lights" foretell victory in battle and start on a massacre. General Crook calls for a volunteer to pass through the Indian lines to deliver a message to Colonel Gray. Swiftwind volunteers, but being weak from exhaustion and privation, falls as he is about to commence his ride. Wallace begs for the opportunity to redeem himself, and mounting his horse, arrives with the message to the besieged band just as they are about to recognize a false flag of truce of the Indians. Sherwood attempts to kill his wife by substituting cholera germs in a bottle labeled morphine. He is injured, however, and Swiftwind, intending to alleviate Dr. Sherwood's suffering with morphine, inoculates him with the cholera germs, unwittingly putting an end to him. Wallace's redemption restores him to the affection of Florence, whom he marries. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
George De Carlton Lt. Charlie Lt. Charlie See fewer	Life Without Soul (1915)
Harry Knowles Col. Gray Col. Gray See fewer	Cleopatra (1912)
Katherine La Salle Helen Dare Sherwood Helen Dare Sherwood See fewer	Checkers (1913)
Anna Laughlin Dorothy Dunbar Dorothy Dunbar See fewer	The Amazing Mr. Fellman (1915)
Iva Shepard Florence Dunbar Florence Dunbar See fewer	While the Children Slept (1913)
William Sorelle Swiftwind (as William F. Sorrell) Swiftwind (as William F. Sorrell) See fewer	The Prince and the Pauper (1915)
Harry Spingler Wallace Gray Wallace Gray See fewer	From the Valley of the Missing (1915)
William H. Tooker Dr. Sherwood Dr. Sherwood See fewer	The Night of Love (1927)
David Wall Horton Horton See fewer	The Bromley Case (1920)