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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29 January 1917
Jack Calvert bets four friends that he can travel from New York to Constantinople without a cent.
26 November 1917
Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addiction is caused by a hereditary failing.
29 September 1917
A woman determines to clear her imprisoned husband of false charges by entrapping the real culprit herself.
10 December 1917
A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls.
22 October 1917
Artist Henry is wildly jealous of his girl Flossie so when he sees her in the arms of another man he overreacts and tries to end it all in a variety of over the top ways.
15 October 1917
While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing a Japanese kimono.
01 November 1917
Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow.
01 October 1917
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she falls in love with a man who loves only her money.
30 April 1917
John Howland travels to the frozen North to build a branch of the Hudson Bay Railroad. There he meets and falls in love with Meleese Thoreau who warns him that her three bloodthirsty brothers, Max, Pierre and François, have sworn vengeance against a man named John Howland, the son of a man who killed their mother, and that torture and death await him along the route to his station.
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