Volume II: Filmography

THE TARGET OF DESTINY

(Princess)

July 31, 1914 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel (973 feet)

Character: Drama

Scenario: Philip Lonergan

Cast: Muriel Ostriche (Muriel Blair), Boyd Marshall (Boyd Fleming), Morgan Jones (Boyd's father), Marie Rainford (Boyd's mother), J.S. Murray, the Steuart children: Maurice Steuart, Jr., Loel Steuart, Eldean Steuart

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, August 1, 1914:

"Muriel Blair, a simple country girl, falls in love with Boyd Fleming, whose wealthy parents have a summer home near the village. Boyd proposes, but knowing that his family does not consider her a good match for their son, she refuses to marry him. Boyd is practicing one day on an improvised rifle range, when his little sister, unnoticed by him, climbs up behind the target. Muriel runs to the child's rescue. She saves Tootsie, but is herself wounded. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming are then completely won over, and Muriel and Boyd are married."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, August 15, 1914:

"Very pretty scenes around some country village give a pleasing tone to this picture; but the story is not strongly worked out. That attempt on the part of the rich youth's father to buy off the pretty country girl is nothing less than trite, too trite for a place in any carefully-written offering at the present time. And this is not the only thin bit of business in the production. On the other hand there is many a delightful bit of posing in it and the loveliest of backgrounds. Truly it is a gem of photography."

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