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The Keeper of the Flock (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

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The Keeper of the Flock (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

Tom Sanford, law student, and William Barstow, student for the ministry, are inseparable chums. Tom has wealth and is rather wild. William, on the contrary, is working his way through college and is industrious and sober. Both are in love ...See moreTom Sanford, law student, and William Barstow, student for the ministry, are inseparable chums. Tom has wealth and is rather wild. William, on the contrary, is working his way through college and is industrious and sober. Both are in love with Louise Wentworth, who admires and respects William but is fascinated by the reckless Tom. William, who is broken in health through overstudy, goes west to regain his health, and takes up sheep herding. He does not write his friends of his pinched circumstances and correspondence ceases. After a quarrel with Louise, Tom goes west to visit a prosperous uncle who owns a ranch. The wild life of the cowboys appeals to him and he becomes a general favorite. During a sort of feud between the sheep owners and cattlemen, Tom, in a drunken spree, takes a shot at a lone sheep herder, intending only to frighten him. The shot tells, however, and Tom returns east to avoid trouble. He intends to confess his crime to Louise and break their engagement, but hasn't the courage and they are married. However, the thought of his crime continually torments Tom and he becomes morose and neglectful and again takes to liquor. At their son's christening, while gazing abstractedly at a stained glass window back of the altar showing "Christ, the Good Shepherd," the picture suddenly fades away to a vision of the actual Christ with a lamb in his arms and then fades slowly into a vision of his victim, and to his horror the face revealed is that of his old time chum, William Barstow. Conscience stricken, he rushes from the church to the consternation of all present and hastens back to the scene of his crime, where it is reported to him that William Barstow had only been wounded by the shot, has recovered and was now a pastor in a modest little church in the community. Tom searches for him and they become reconciled. The terrible mental torture of the last few months proves too much for Tom's debauched vitality and he goes over the Divide in the house of his friend, requesting that he be laid to rest in the quiet church yard on the hill. William breaks the sad news to Tom s wife, but feeling that his life is consecrated to the people who nursed him back to health, he remains at the little pastorate in the western village. A few years later, after steady correspondence, Louise consents to share his ministry and she and her little son join the "Shepherd." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Louis Bennison Actor Actor See fewer	Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U (1919)
Reina Valdez Actress Actress See fewer	The Call of the Sea (III) (1915)
Edward Alexander Actor Actor See fewer	The Chosen Prince, or the Friendship of David and Jonathan (1917)
Fritzi Brunette Actress Actress See fewer	The Green Flame (1920)
John T. Dillon Actor Actor See fewer	Seven Days (1914)
Jack Prescott Actor Actor See fewer	The Torch Bearer (1916)