The Two Vanrevels - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

The feud between Tom Vanrevel and Robert Carewe started at the time of the outbreak of the Mexican War, when Vanrevel, in a public speech, bitterly assailed Carewe's views on the situation. There had been hard feeling between the two men ...See moreThe feud between Tom Vanrevel and Robert Carewe started at the time of the outbreak of the Mexican War, when Vanrevel, in a public speech, bitterly assailed Carewe's views on the situation. There had been hard feeling between the two men ever since Carewe had won a considerable sum of money from Crailey Gray at cards, when Vanrevel had paid the boy's debts, and asked him not to play with Carewe again. The first case, Carewe had set aside as an unwarranted interference in other people's affairs on Vanrevel's part, but Tom's attitude on the war situation was of such a nature that Carewe felt he could not pass it by. When Carewe challenged him to a duel, Vanrevel laughed, and refused to fight. Thereupon the enraged Carewe sent word that he would shoot Tom like a dog if he ever dared to set foot on his property. When Carewe's daughter, Betty, came home from boarding school, Tom Vanrevel fell deeply in love with her. Through a misunderstanding, Betty confused Crailey Gray and Tom Vanrevel from the beginning. She thought Tom was the weak vacillating Crailey, and Crailey, her father's enemy, Vanrevel. And so, when Vanrevel came into the grounds at night, and played on a guitar, Betty did not realize that he was in imminent danger of his life. She only knew that she liked the young man very much indeed, and that she was very glad he liked her well enough to serenade her. When Betty learned that Vanrevel and Crailey Gray were both going to the Mexican War, she sent a note to the man she loved, asking him to come to the Carewe's garden that afternoon. Since it was addressed to him, Crailey Gray got the note. As we have said before, Crailey was a weakling. Tom had been the only strengthening influence in his life. But weakling or not, Crailey rose to his opportunity like a man. He knew that Tom would go if he got Betty's note, and he knew that Carewe would almost certainly kill him. So Crailey put on Vanrevel's uniform, and went in his friend's place. Carewe, who had learned of his daughter's note, knew that Vanrevel was expected. When Crailey appeared in Tom's uniform, Carewe, true to his promise, shot him. Tom Vanrevel arrived too late to save his friend. Crailey confessed that he had allowed Betty to think he was the other, in the hope that she might learn to love him. Then. Begging them to think a little kindly of him, he smiled, and died. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less