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Won in the Clouds (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

Won in the Clouds (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

Cecil James, an Englishman, accompanied by his daughter, Grace, is hunting big game in the wilds of Africa. One day Bangula, a Kaffir, steals a rifle from the gun-rack. This is an offense meriting death in that locality, and when Bangula ...See moreCecil James, an Englishman, accompanied by his daughter, Grace, is hunting big game in the wilds of Africa. One day Bangula, a Kaffir, steals a rifle from the gun-rack. This is an offense meriting death in that locality, and when Bangula is captured by his fellows he is saved from being pinned to a tree by a hundred spears by the interference of James. Out of gratitude to his savior, Bangula leads James and his daughter to the fabled diamond mine of the Kabangans. They leave for the interior. In the meantime in the city of Bloemfontein, Roy Knabenshue, an American aeronaut, arrives with his dirigible balloon for the purpose of carrying agents of Bjornsen, a banker, to the diamond mines of the interior. Knabenshue falls in love with Bjornsen's daughter, Mary. However, this expectation never materializes as Bjornsen's bank fails and there are no funds to support the object. In the interior James and his daughter reach a Kaffir village near the diamond mine. From the fact that he smokes a pipe James is taken to be a fire god by the natives. Upon the arrival the Englishman and his daughter meet a white man, Portuguese Jack, a renegade, who like themselves, is worshiped as a fire god and is virtually held a prisoner. James locates the diamond mine and secures many rough diamonds. However things become complicated when the Portuguese attempts to force his attentions on Grace. The renegade watches them and when they attempt to escape with the diamonds he reports them to the chief of the tribe. They hide the diamonds in the floor of the feast house where the Kaffirs feed their victims to the lions, and when they finally escape they are obliged to leave the diamonds. Father and daughter make their way to the town of Bloemfontein and read in the paper of the abandoned expedition of Knabenshue. They offer Knabenshue half of the diamonds if he will aid them to recover the jewels. He consents. The entire party penetrates into the interior and Knabenshue and Mary, his bride, wait in a village with the dirigible until James shall signal them to come to him. The chief of the Kaffirs welcomes the return of James and Grace. James instructs Grace to signal to Knabenshue while he gets the diamonds from the feast house. The renegade incites the chief against James and the Englishman is to be sacrificed. James is securely tied in the feast-house and a trail of raw meat is laid into the jungle. The lions of the wilds follow the trail of meat and are about to tear James to pieces when Grace arrives and after a battle in which she uses her revolver to good advantage, drives them away. They dig up the diamonds. In a last effort to defeat their purpose, the renegade sets fire to the feast-house. As they escape from the flaming trap, they see the dirigible floating in the air nearby. While the natives are stupefied with astonishment, James and Grace climb aboard and it is none too soon. The renegade explains that dirigible is a mere bag of wind and that a touch of the spear and it will fall dead. A thousand spears shoot heavenward as the natives attack the dirigible, to save themselves the aeronauts throw lyddite bombs upon the village. Three terrific explosions and the village is no more. The happy party sails away through the blue ether to civilization and safety. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Herbert Rawlinson Roy Roy See fewer	The Flame Fighter (1925)
Marie Walcamp Mary Mary See fewer	Tongues of Flame (1918)
Frank Lloyd Portuguese Jack Portuguese Jack See fewer	Cavalcade (1933)
Rex De Rosselli Actor Actor See fewer	Rescued by Wireless (1914)
Elsie Fay Grace Grace See fewer	Arabia and the Baby (1913)
A. Roy Knabenshue Self - Aviator Self - Aviator See fewer	Pathé's Weekly, No. 22 (1914)