Primitive Man (1913)

• 74%
• 1913
• Drama
• Robert G. Vignola
• Tom Moore
• Alice Hollister
• Harry F. Millarde

Allan loves Betty, a mountain girl. Not sure that she loves the boy. Betty declines to marry him. Dan, a rough mountaineer, lives a secluded life, with only his dog as companion. The man sees Betty bathing in a mountain stream. He falls madly in love with her. Later, Dan woos her in his rough way. Betty, who is something of a coquette, finds herself seized in his strong arms and pressed to his breast. Despite her struggles, Dan kisses her repeatedly and then rushes away. Betty tries hard to be angry, but the man has awakened the first fire of love in her heart. Shortly afterward, Dan overhears Allan making love to Betty. The mountaineer thrashes Allan, who flees like a whipped cur. Dan orders the girl to choose between Allan and herself. Betty marries Dan. Allan calls on Betty, ostensibly upon a friendly visit. Later he tries to make love to her. Dan sees this and beats the man soundly. Thinking his wife guilty of a love affair. Dan tells Betty that for the rest of her life she is to live in seclusion. The man lives in a shack near the house and keeps visitors away. Dan's dog carries a market basket to the village every day and secures the necessary food. One day, Betty places a note in the basket requesting that a doctor be sent immediately. Dan allows the physician to pass. Several hours later, the doctor emerges from the house, his face beaming. Betty has given birth to a son. Dan is petrified upon hearing the news. Remorse, because of the brutal treatment he has accorded Betty, sits heavily upon him. The man rushes into the house and falls on his knees by the bedside. Betty, with her infant cuddled to her breast, places her hand upon Dan's head and smiles her forgiveness.