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The Fangs of Hate
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Ramo Films, Incorporated, production; distributed by Exclusive Supply Corporation. / Released 26 November 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA by Box Office Attractions Company in 1914.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Tom Randolph, on the day of his engagement to Agnes Thorne, a beautiful Southern girl, stops his horse on the road near a gypsy camp, long enough to interfere with The Wolf, king of the gypsies, who is beating his daughter, Cynthia. Tom rides on to the Thorne mansion, little suspecting that he is being followed by a gypsy spy sent by The Wolf. While he is there a gypsy boy (not the spy), is caught by Major Thorne, poaching on his estate, and Tom comes to the boy’s rescue in time to save him from a beating. That night The Wolf tries to waylay Tom and kill him, but Cynthia saves Tom by cutting the rope which the gypsies have tied across the road to throw Tom from his horse. Sometime later, at the engagement party given by Major Thorne in honor of his sister’s engagement to Tom, Cynthia warns Tom of his danger from her father. Thorne partly overhears, and suspects an affair between his prospective brother-in-law and the gypsy. Thinking an insult has been placed on his family, he breaks the engagement, slaps Tom’s face, and challenges him to a duel. The next morning during the duel Tom fires in the air, rather than kill the brother of the girl he loves, but Pedro, the gypsy boy, whom Tom has saved from a beating, hides near the spot, shoots from the underbrush, killing Thorne, the shots being simultaneous. Tom sees his opponent fall and is unable to account for it. Before he dies, Thorne accuses Tom of shooting him in the back, and Tom is arrested and accused of the murder. At the trial, when the case is going on against Tom, Pedro, in the gypsies’ camp, basked by his guilty conscience, confesses to his sister that he killed Thorne. Cynthia overhears his confession, and drags him to court. The prosecuting attorney gets a confession from the frightened boy. Meanwhile Bess, the boy’s sister, seeing affairs against her brother, hurries to the gypsy camp, gallops back with a horse that she leads under the courtroom window, rushes into the courtroom, throws her arms around the boy, whispers into his ear, quickly turns, engages the judge’s attention, when suddenly the boy leaps to the jury rail, through the closed window below. Pandemonium reigns, the sheriff rushes to the window in time to see the boy disappear in the distance. Tom is acquitted and Agnes comes to his arms, while Cynthia, the martyr, goes back to her tribe, to bear the scorn of her own people for loving above her station.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 19 August 2025.
References: Tarbox-Lost p. 208 : MoPicNews-19140404 p. 16 : Website-IMDb.
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