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The Poisoned Pool (1912)
Short | Short, Drama

The Poisoned Pool (1912)

Short | Short, Drama

Two young prospectors, finding that the old mine in which they had sunk their entire capital has long since yielded up its last handful of pay-rock, set out together across the hills in search of new fields. One night in the flickering ...See moreTwo young prospectors, finding that the old mine in which they had sunk their entire capital has long since yielded up its last handful of pay-rock, set out together across the hills in search of new fields. One night in the flickering light of their campfire Rice discovers evidence in the pocket of his sleeping partner, which convinces him that the latter has been successful in winning the love of a girl to whose hand he also had aspired. He masters his first passionate impulse to kill the man. By morning his jealousy has subsided into a dangerously smoldering hatred which is silent and bides its time. All unconscious of the events of the night and of the peril which now walks with him, Starret continues his quest for gold with the other. One day their supply of water fails them. In their search for a spring they wander far from their camp and are lost. When they finally come upon a sinister looking pool, in the wilderness, young Starret is on the point of collapse. From the encrustations about its rim, Rice sees that the hole is reeking with arsenic. At first he struggles to keep the half crazed Starret away from it. The scene of that night beside the campfire comes back to him. The man in him gives place to the demon; he flings his partner upon his face to drink of the noxious liquor. Providence, in the guise of a heavy downpour of rain, visits Starrett. He had fortunately fainted before his lips could touch the poison. Reviving, he wanders back to the camp, and seeing that abandoned he finds his way to Bess Austin's cabin. There an encounter takes place as a result of which Rice returns to the poisoned pool alone to drink. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Frederick Truesdell Charles Starret (as Fred C. Truesdell) Charles Starret (as Fred C. Truesdell) See fewer	Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)
Barbara Tennant Bess Austin Bess Austin See fewer	The Infidel (1922)
Jack W. Johnston Jack Rice (as J.W. Johnston) Jack Rice (as J.W. Johnston) See fewer	The Land of Promise (1917)