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The Night Riders (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

The Night Riders (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

Mr. Harvey, a planter, for some trifling neglect of duty, is about to beat one of his negro employees, but Kate Harvey, his daughter, interferes and saves Tom from a heating. After, the Night Riders decide to punish Harvey for selling his ...See moreMr. Harvey, a planter, for some trifling neglect of duty, is about to beat one of his negro employees, but Kate Harvey, his daughter, interferes and saves Tom from a heating. After, the Night Riders decide to punish Harvey for selling his cotton and tobacco at his own price. Tom overhears the threats against Harvey and starts off to warn him and his daughter. He meets Kate on the way from home visiting friends, and knowing the danger to her at her father's house, he, without her consent, forcibly takes her to the cabin of a negro mammy. Two black boys see this forced abduction, as they think, and run off to tell Harvey. In the meantime, the Night Riders have decoyed Harvey from his home and are about to beat him up when the black boys come on, and Harvey and the rest of the white men forgetting their differences, start out in search of the black fiend, as they think. Tom, having left Kate in the cabin, starts out to warn her father, but is met by the black boy, who tells him the white men will lynch him first, and then find out whether he is guilty or not afterwards. Tom realizes the danger and hides in the swamps and woods. The black boy goes on to Kate and tells her Tom's danger. She starts out to save Tom and arrives just as her father and the lynching party are about to hang or burn Tom. She explains the situation and of course, all ends well. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less