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The Great God Fear (1914)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

The Great God Fear (1914)

Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

In a frontier mining town Gabriel Blair nurses a man who has fallen sick of a strange skin disease. Someone in the community pronounces the disease leprosy and the community expels patient and nurse from the town. Blair provides for the ...See moreIn a frontier mining town Gabriel Blair nurses a man who has fallen sick of a strange skin disease. Someone in the community pronounces the disease leprosy and the community expels patient and nurse from the town. Blair provides for the man and goes back to the town, but being now contaminated they won't let him stay. He goes to another mining community looking for a doctor. In this second town lives Meta Gates with her aged father. Meta is courted by Dick Stull, a brutal fellow, who wants to marry her, but she will not have him. He finds her alone and his wooing is becoming rough, when Blair appears and Stull desists. Blair is told that a doctor is hunting in the neighborhood, so he waits for the doctor to return and an affection springs up between Meta and Blair. One day a traveler from the first town arrives and, recognizing Blair, tells the town he is a leper. Blair is at once expelled, but Meta follows him while Stull sets out to bring her back before she can reach her lover. The doctor happens into the first camp and is told of the leper. He goes out to see him and finds that he is not a leper. Crossing the mountain, the doctor meets Blair, Meta and Stull just as the latter is begging Meta to keep away from Blair and go with him. The doctor examines Blair and pronounces him not a leper and tells them that the first man also was not a leper. Stull departs defeated and the doctor passes on, leaving Meta and Blair to return to the camp. But Stull has preceded them and, counting on the fear of the town, organizes them against Blair and Meta, concealing the fact that Blair is not a leper. The mob decides to kill the pair and menace them with guns, but dare not go near. Stull, knowing there is no danger, boldly assails Blair and in a hand-to-hand fight tries to kill him. Blair is getting the better of the combat, when Stull escapes from him and goes back to the mob. But the mob now believes him also contaminated and they kill him. The doctor now returns and dispels all fear, and Blair and Meta are invited back to the camp. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
F.A. Turner Gabriel Blair (as Fred A. Turner) Gabriel Blair (as Fred A. Turner) See fewer	Restitution (1918)
Mae Marsh Meta Gates Meta Gates See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Robert Harron Undetermined Role Undetermined Role See fewer	Intolerance (1916)
Donald Crisp Dick Stull Dick Stull See fewer	How Green Was My Valley (1941)
W.E. Lawrence Actor Actor See fewer	Intolerance (1916)
Frank Bennett Actor Actor See fewer	Intolerance (1916)