Iola's Promise (1912)
Overview
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.
What is Iola's Promise about?
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people. Iola's Promise is a Romance, Western, Drama movie, released on 1912-03-14, runtime 18 minutes.
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Directed by
D.W. Griffith
Cast
- Mary Pickford as Iola
- Alfred Paget as Jack Harper
- Frank Evans as Jack's Partner
- Dorothy Bernard as Jack's Sweetheart
- Frank Opperman as Frank's Sweetheart's Father
- Kate Toncray as Jack's Sweetheart's Mother
- Charles Hill Mailes as Jack's Sweetheart's Father
- J. Jiquel Lanoe as The Medicine Man (uncredited)
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