The Village Blacksmith (1922)

survived only 10 minutes As young men the squire Marshall and the village blacksmith Walling are in love with the same woman Boardman whom the blacksmith marries This angers the squire Years later the squires son Anson Yearsley dares the blacksmiths son Johnnie Hackathorne to climb a tree from which he falls and is crippled As adults Anson and the blacksmiths daughter Alice Valli fall in love which angers the blacksmith who chastises his daughter The blacksmiths other son Bill Butler returns from college and is injured in a train accident Anson steals 480 from a church fund which is currently in Alices possession Alice is struck by lightning The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent