The Target

An absorbing drama lavishly produced.

Colorado lawyer Bill Brent, falsely accused and imprisoned for a murder committed by his partner, escapes to Canada with his cellmate where they become wealthy in the trapping business. When out of a trapping expedition the pair rescue Nita, the only survivor of a boating accident. In time Bill and she fall in love and marry then Bill makes the unwise decision to try to return to see his elderly mother.

1916

0h 50min

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Top Billed Cast

Hobart Bosworth
Big Bill Brent
Jane Novak
Nita
Anna Lehr
Mrs. Brent
Maude George
Marian Moore
A. Kammeyer
Walter Peyton
Dick La Reno
George Harris
Albert MacQuarrie
James Fowler

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