The Lamb
Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of his "yellow streak", leaves him and goe…
The Lamb
Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of his "yellow streak", leaves him and goes by train to visit some friends in Arizona, with Bill in tow. Gerald follows them, and he and Mary wind up captured by Yaqui Indians and Gerald must prove to Mary that he is not the "weakling" she thinks he is by coming up with a plan for them to escape their captors. —frankfob2@yahoo.com A sprig of an old Knickerbocker family has won a beautiful girl as a fiancée and everything goes along smoothly until the girl, Mary, discovers a "yellow streak" in her Lamb Yclept Gerald. During a mishap at a bathing beach, Bill Cactus, a young giant from Arizona visiting in New York, affects a thrilling rescue while Gerald fails utterly to show up as a self-sacrificing young man. Later Bill goes out to Arizona where the girl and her friends are enjoying a visit at a ranch. The Lamb leaves the transcontinental train to buy some Indian trinkets. The train speeds off without him. Crooks offer to take him to the train by a short cut route, then pack him and leave him for dead on the desert. The Lamb wanders about rather helplessly till by good fortune he sights an aviator who is fitting over the country for the very same ranch people where his former fiancée is staying. The aviator and Gerald are captured by Yaqui Indians, taken across the Mexican border and held prisoners. A thrilling fight ensues between the Yaquis and Mexican soldiers in which the Indians are victorious. Gerald's sweetheart in an automobile party that ventures across the line is captured by the Indians, too. The Arizona man then shows his "yellow streak" and goes back over the border to tell the American troopers of the girl's capture and disappearance. Gerald and Mary are left alone together. Then the real qualities of the Lamb assert themselves. He finds a rapid-fire cannon which the Indians had taken from the Mexicans and which they regarded as a piece of junk. Backed up against the wall with the girl at his side he operates the rapid firing gun and mows down the greater part of the tribe as they advance to attack them. When, however, all the ammunition is exhausted the remaining Indians have their opportunity. They approach cautiously on all fours, meaning to take the man alive to cut his heart out. Gerald and Mary prepare for the death. But in the meantime the American troopers come riding over the sagebrush and cactus. They arrive in the nick of time and Mary and her Lamb fall into each other's arms. —Moving Picture World synopsis
The Lamb
Adventure,Comedy,Western
Film Details
Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of his "yellow streak", leaves him and goes by train to visit some friends in Arizona, with Bill in tow. Gerald follows them, and he and Mary wind up captured by Yaqui Indians and Gerald must prove to Mary that he is not the "weakling" she thinks he is by coming up with a plan for them to escape their captors.
—frankfob2@yahoo.com A sprig of an old Knickerbocker family has won a beautiful girl as a fiancée and everything goes along smoothly until the girl, Mary, discovers a "yellow streak" in her Lamb Yclept Gerald. During a mishap at a bathing beach, Bill Cactus, a young giant from Arizona visiting in New York, affects a thrilling rescue while Gerald fails utterly to show up as a self-sacrificing young man. Later Bill goes out to Arizona where the girl and her friends are enjoying a visit at a ranch.
The Lamb leaves the transcontinental train to buy some Indian trinkets. The train speeds off without him. Crooks offer to take him to the train by a short cut route, then pack him and leave him for dead on the desert.
The Lamb wanders about rather helplessly till by good fortune he sights an aviator who is fitting over the country for the very same ranch people where his former fiancée is staying. The aviator and Gerald are captured by Yaqui Indians, taken across the Mexican border and held prisoners. A thrilling fight ensues between the Yaquis and Mexican soldiers in which the Indians are victorious.
Gerald's sweetheart in an automobile party that ventures across the line is captured by the Indians, too. The Arizona man then shows his "yellow streak" and goes back over the border to tell the American troopers of the girl's capture and disappearance. Gerald and Mary are left alone together.
Then the real qualities of the Lamb assert themselves. He finds a rapid-fire cannon which the Indians had taken from the Mexicans and which they regarded as a piece of junk. Backed up against the wall with the girl at his side he operates the rapid firing gun and mows down the greater part of the tribe as they advance to attack them.
When, however, all the ammunition is exhausted the remaining Indians have their opportunity. They approach cautiously on all fours, meaning to take the man alive to cut his heart out. Gerald and Mary prepare for the death.
But in the meantime the American troopers come riding over the sagebrush and cactus. They arrive in the nick of time and Mary and her Lamb fall into each other's arms. —Moving Picture World synopsis.