SAVED FROM THE REDMEN

1912, Denmark

Aka… Saved from the Redmen

T: 935ft. (UK)

Pc: Nordisk Film Kompagni (Oslo) [Ole Olsen]

Dist: Nordisk Film Kompagni (Oslo) [Ole Olsen], Nordisk (07/06/12, UK)

Syn: Colonial. Outside the British camp two horses are tethered, and a thieving Indian is on the point of stealing an ox. Captain Budd sends him off with the crack of a revolver in his ear. On the steps of their bungalow the colonel and his wife and daughter are seated, when Captain Budd arrives. “The captain is a suitor for the girl's hand. The Indian has returned to his camp, and a band of Indians set out on the warpath. Captain Budd and the Colonel's daughter set off for a ride. ‘They are saved upon by an Indian, who warns his band and set upon they are in full flight after the unsuspecting lovers. An Indian brings his tomahawk down on Captain Budd's head, and he falls forward on his horse. The girl immediately sets her horse off at a gallop, with the Indians in full chase. Budd recovers. and races back to the British camp and tells the news. The soldiers turn on Jed by Captain Bodd.) The Britishers come up with the Indians in a small clearing. The Indian chief seizes the bridle of the colonel's daughter’s horse, and gallops off. leaving his tribe to account for the Britishers. The Indians are annihilated. Captain Budd dashes off after the Indian chief and the girl At Length Captain Budd comes up with his quarry. Both dismount. Deftly dodging the murderous blows of the Indian, Captain Budd at length manages to stretch him lifeless. just as the colonel and the rest of the regiment arrives. (“The colonel recognises the gallantry and noble-ness of the young captain by joining his hand with that of his daughter. 

     Comm: Bioscope mentioned SAVED FROM THE REDMEN in two issues June 19 and July 4, 1912, and ran a synopsis in the later. Not to be confused with Bison’s “Saved from the Redmen” (1910, US), which wasn’t in colonial times.

 

Submitted by Michael Ferguson