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Snowdrift (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

Snowdrift (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

While a broken-down, gray-haired old fellow is silently sweeping snow in front of a prominent club, one of the club members decided to take him in to enliven the evening with a story of his life. After taking a drink the old man is induced...See moreWhile a broken-down, gray-haired old fellow is silently sweeping snow in front of a prominent club, one of the club members decided to take him in to enliven the evening with a story of his life. After taking a drink the old man is induced to tell his life's story. The club scene fades out and the spectator is carried into the wilds of the Great Northwest when snow is on the ground and in the air. It was thirty years ago. While prospecting in a blinding snowstorm the man lost his way and with the map of a valuable strike clasped tightly in his hand he was buried in the snow. The man has a sweetheart who loves him much and fears for his safety. This girl is loved by Arcon, another miner. On the promise that she will marry him, Arcon starts out with his hunchback to find the missing man. They return with him more dead than alive, but not before stealing the map. The hunchback demands his share while the two men are in an adjoining room. Arcon binds and casts him into a closet and then forces the prospector's sweetheart to go away with him. She leaves a note saying that she loves another. When the miner recovers, he is told the story by the hunchback and in a frenzy of unbelief, he kills the cripple. Broken in spirit and with his life wrecked, he is sentenced to life imprisonment. After ten years of hard labor, a pardon comes. He makes his way from camp to camp, playing the piano and singing for a living, always with the purpose in his mind of killing the man who had wrecked his happiness. As the old man comes to this part of his story, one of the club members who had been most prominent in poking fun at him, starts violently. Turning around, the miner of former days sees standing before him, Arcon, now a prosperous and respected citizen. The shock of the meeting and his fright causes Arcon to be stricken with heart failure, but before he dies he places the hand of his daughter in that of the man whom he had wronged and tells her that the old and dying tramp is the only man her mother ever loved. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
O.A.C. Lund The Prospector The Prospector See fewer	Together (1918)
Barbara Tennant The Prospector's Sweetheart The Prospector's Sweetheart See fewer	The Infidel (1922)
Lindsay J. Hall Arcon Arcon See fewer	The Hermit's Secret (1915)
Bert Starkey The Hunchback The Hunchback See fewer	The Dark Mirror (1920)