Summary Young Nella Babard is alone in her cabin, left there temporarily by her parents who have gone to the city. A pair of escaped convicts, fleeing from the police, come upon the cabin and duck inside. One of the pair, "Sporting Chance" Johnson, was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit and he and Nella find themselves attracted to each other. They sleep together and in the morning Johnson goes out looking for a minister to marry them, but he is caught and sent back to prison. Nella later discovers she is pregnant and, realizing Johnson isn't coming back, agrees to marry a writer she is working for. Three years later the writer, looking for material for a story, travels to the prison and meets a prisoner who is about to get out, and when the writer hears his story, he asks the man to stay at his home until he gets back on his feet. The writer doesn't know that the prisoner is 'Sporting Chance Johnson", and Johnson doesn't know that the writer is now Nella's husband and they have a daughter--Johnson's child. Complications ensue. View more details
Directed : Frank Beal
Written : John B. Clymer Ruth Ann Baldwin
Stars : Tom Santschi G. Raymond Nye Gladys Brockwell William Scott
Genres : Drama
Release date : Sep 13, 1919
Countries of origin : United States
Language : None
Filming locations : Sequoia National Park, California, USA
Production companies : Fox Film Corporation
Summary Young Nella Babard is alone in her cabin, left there temporarily by her parents who have gone to the city. A pair of escaped convicts, fleeing from the police, come upon the cabin and duck inside. One of the pair, "Sporting Chance" Johnson, was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit and he and Nella find themselves attracted to each other. They sleep together and in the morning Johnson goes out looking for a minister to marry them, but he is caught and sent back to prison. Nella later discovers she is pregnant and, realizing Johnson isn't coming back, agrees to marry a writer she is working for. Three years later the writer, looking for material for a story, travels to the prison and meets a prisoner who is about to get out, and when the writer hears his story, he asks the man to stay at his home until he gets back on his feet. The writer doesn't know that the prisoner is 'Sporting Chance Johnson", and Johnson doesn't know that the writer is now Nella's husband and they have a daughter--Johnson's child. Complications ensue. View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Sep 13, 1919
Countries of origin : United States
Language : None
Filming locations : Sequoia National Park, California, USA
Production companies : Fox Film Corporation
