God's Country and the Law

Based on stories by James Oliver Curwood (opening credits are missing and I don't see anything with these characters in his published stories), the story is set in Quebec (though we have North-West Mounted Police) and follows bad guy Jacques Doré (William Tooker) who wears a rattlesnake amulet for good luck and has "degenerate blood." He is running from the Mounties when he comes upon a cabin and asks for shelter from a raging storm.

Happy old 'Poleon (Cesare Gravina) and his half-Indian daughter Oachi (Hope Sutherland) take him in but after a few days he attacks Oachi and is thrown out of the cabin. He next wanders into a saloon where he discovers he lost his amulet. He plays poker and loses his money.

He heads back into the woods and wanders into the campground or Marie and her husband (Gladys Leslie and Fred C. Jones) and eventually attacks Marie and is driven away by the husband. But when the husband is away Doré kidnaps Marie. She escapes by jumping off a cliff into the raging river (Saco River rapids).

Marie is found by Oachi and taken in. The husband eventually finds her and they are all surprised by the arrival of evil Doré who has been driven mad by a night in the woods where he has been haunted by the spirits of those he has harmed.

Some beautiful photography (Sebago Lake, Maine) and the performances are quite good. The city sequence is of Montreal. The French broken English intertitles get to be a bit wearying. Gladys Leslie is very good in this one.