In the Dragon's Claws (1915)
Short | 20 min | Short, Drama

In the Dragon's Claws (1915)

Short | 20 min | Short, Drama

The white colony of Pekin are giving a ball at which "Clutch"' Crawford, his daughter, Helen, and Gustaf Schmidt, a gun agent, are guests. Crawford, who is the American "powder king." is selling powder and guns to Prince Wong Fu, Manchu ...See moreThe white colony of Pekin are giving a ball at which "Clutch"' Crawford, his daughter, Helen, and Gustaf Schmidt, a gun agent, are guests. Crawford, who is the American "powder king." is selling powder and guns to Prince Wong Fu, Manchu Prince, who, though he poses as a friend of the white residents, is secretly behind a Boxer uprising. At the height of the ball the Boxers swarm in. The guests flee to the upper floor. Grant Gordon, a soldier of fortune, taking refuge in the hotel from the street, fights his way through the Chinese and upstairs to the suite where the Crawfords have retreated. Prince Wong, who has it in mind to make a captive of Helen, reaches the Crawford suite and all but induces them to trust to him. While he is below getting his followers together, Moy Lee, an Americanized Chinese, Crawford's valet, leads them out of the hotel to the waterfront, via an underground passage he remembers from his boyhood. Gordon parts from the Crawfords to return to the fighting. Five years later the "powder king" at Catalina receives a mysterious telegram telling of a conference about a new revolution. Schmidt at El Paso receives the same telegram. These war promoters meet at Catalina to find the "poppy blossom." Meanwhile Gordon has come to Catalina from the fighting in Mexico. He and Helen renew the friendship and love that began in the thrilling hours at Pekin. A yacht flying a poppy blossom puts in at Catalina. Crawford and Schmidt go aboard and find Prince Wong, now an exile under the Chinese Republic. Wong wants their assistance in a royalist revolution he is fomenting. They join him and draw Gordon in as a practical fighting man. Prince Wong on seeing Helen again loses interest in the revolution and plots to kidnap her. This he does by taking her prisoner while she is sailing. His men overturn her sloop, giving the appearance of a capsize. He takes her aboard his yacht. While he has her a prisoner Helen's father arrives at the yacht coincident with the news that Helen is drowned. Wong uses his yacht making a pretense of hunting for Helen. Gordon learns of Wong's treachery through Moy Lee, who is now a secret agent of the republic. He goes aboard the yacht and rescues Helen. Wong returns just as the lovers are leaving. A chase between the yacht's launch and Gordon's launch follows to an isolated cove where the fugitives leap ashore and take refuge. Wong and Gordon fight on top of the cliff, and the Prince is hurled to the rocks on the shore below. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Lee Shumway Grant Gordon (as Leon C. Shumway) Grant Gordon (as Leon C. Shumway) See fewer	Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)
Velma Whitman Helen Crawford Helen Crawford See fewer	Some Boy (1917)
Melvin Mayo Crawford - Helen's Father (unconfirmed) Crawford - Helen's Father (unconfirmed) See fewer	The Death Warrant (1914)
Leon De La Mothe Actor (as Leon D. Kent) Actor (as Leon D. Kent) See fewer	Las campanas de Capistrano (1930)
Robert Gray Actor Actor See fewer	The Great Radium Mystery (1919)
George Routh Actor Actor See fewer	While the Children Slept (1913)

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