J.P. McGowan

Hal Clements

Helen Lindroth

The seven notches on the handle of Ed. Grigg&apos;s gun, one for each Danver, present a grim story. For years the Griggs and Danvers have been engaged in a deadly feud. One morning as Bill Danver is hitching his horse to the plow, the ...

The Eighth Notch

It might have been even stronger

There were dramatic possibilities in this situation that were utilized, but not wholly developed, and, though it is a good offering, it might have been even stronger. There is one place where it is not at once clear; it comes after the woman finds the feudist&apos;s gun with the eighth notch and from it thinks that he has killed her husband, because the other notches represent others of her family. The struggle between the sheriff and the crowd that wants to lynch the feudist, before it is found that he is innocent, doesn&apos;t convince strongly. The qualities of the offering are the truthfulness of the characters and the setting, and especially the ragged children. The photography is not as good as it might have been. - The Moving Picture World, May 17, 1913

There were dramatic possibilities in this situation that were utilized, but not wholly developed, and, though it is a good offering, it might have been even stronger. There is one place where it is not at once clear; it comes after the woman finds the feudist's gun with the eighth notch and from it thinks that he has killed her husband, because the other notches represent others of her family. The struggle between the sheriff and the crowd that wants to lynch the feudist, before it is found that he is innocent, doesn't convince strongly. The qualities of the offering are the truthfulness of the characters and the setting, and especially the ragged children. The photography is not as good as it might have been. - The Moving Picture World, May 17, 1913

The seven notches on the handle of Ed. Grigg's gun, one for each Danver, present a grim story. For years the Griggs and Danvers have been engaged in a deadly feud. One morning as Bill Danver is hitching his horse to the plow, the animal runs away and Danver, who is dragged over the ground, suffers a broken leg. The horse returns to the stable and Mrs. Danver, full of apprehension, goes in search of her husband. Grigg's little son, playing with a jackknife, cuts the eighth notch on the gun handle. When Mrs. Danver comes to the Grigg cabin, with rifle in hand, she sees the newly cut notch and surmises that her husband has been added to the list of Grigg's victims. Danver makes his way painfully over the field and is picked up by a farmer. Grigg, despite his protests of innocence, is arrested and is about to be dealt with severely when the injured man reaches the scene and explanations follow, The black looks of the two enemies soften when they discover that their innocent children are playmates,

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