Neil Dacey falls in with loves Peggy Desmond. Terence O'Malley, nephew of Squire O'Malley, is anxious to win Peggy. Terence and his uncle have a quarrel because Terence cannot win Peggy, and the squire is killed. Terence does the killing with Neil's gun, so Neil is held for the murder. Peggy, to save her fiance, dresses as the will-o'-the-wisp.
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Mabel Taliaferro as Peggy Desmond
Thomas Carrigan as Captain Neil Dacey
William J. Gross as Anthony Desmond
Sam J. Ryan as Squire O'Malley
Nathaniel Sack as Terence O'Malley
Tom O'Malley as Shamus Donnelly
Florence Ashbrooke as Sarah
Clara Blandick as Mrs. Donnelly
John J. Williams as Muldoon
Tod Browning Director
John M. Bauman Director of Photography
B.A. Rolfe Producer
Katharine Kavanaugh Story
United States 02 July 1917
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17 March 1917
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24 September 1917
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24 June 1917
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10 September 1917
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22 February 1917
A young married woman's attraction to a violinist sours as his behaviour grows more and more aggressive.
24 June 1917
Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the big city.
29 September 1917
A woman determines to clear her imprisoned husband of false charges by entrapping the real culprit herself.
01 October 1917
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30 April 1917
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24 March 1917
Billy Carter and two Mexicans, Cuteo and Estaban, are smugglers of opium which they bring across the border from Mexico into the United States.
13 January 1917
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