You would think that the death of his wife through his dissipation and neglect would have brought Jack Moreland to his senses. Instead he is more dissipated, and deserts his child, Clara, who is taken by her uncle, Harold Moreland, and brought up in ignorance of her father's existence.
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Maurice Costello as Harold Moreland - the Black Sheep's Brother
Helene Costello as Clara Moreland as a Child
Zena Keefe as Clara Moreland as an Adult
James Morrison as Percival Summers - Clara's Sweetheart
Leah Baird as Mrs. Moreland - Clara's Mother
Rose Tapley as Mrs. Harold Moreland
Leonard Grover as The Doctor
Edwin R. Phillips as Jack Moreland - the Black Sheep
Herbert Barry as Percival's Brother
Edwin R. Phillips Director
United States 19 July 1912
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A romantic Western in which John saves his beloved Mary when she is about to marry a criminal.
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When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby.
23 December 1912
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Esmeralda Foster, an attractive girl, is very much impressed with Duncan Miller, a crafty country swain, who makes love to Esmeralda because of her father's wealth.
14 February 1912
Jim and Mary are a betrothed couple whose devotion to each other is tested when a famous actress comes to town.
12 June 1912
Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer forests of the west, makes love to the Indian maiden whenever he chances to meet her, until she longs and looks for his coming and going, and finds that he has made himself part of her life.
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Out in the farm-lands near Portland, the Widow Walters lives with her daughter Ethel. As far as affections are concerned, those of the widow are confined to her daughter, until Squire Lang, a fat old widower, with his son Harry, moves onto the adjoining farm.
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