Courtesy Richard C. Allen

The Flaming Forest

(Reginald Barker, 1926)

Antonio Moreno stars in this adaptation of James Oliver Curwood's 1921 novel, The Flaming Forest, a Novel of the Canadian Northwest. When half breed bandit Jules Lagarre (Oscar Beregi) attempts to take over the Canadian Northwest with a gang of Indians and thugs, the Canadian government forms the Northwest Mounted Police to establish order. Sergeant Carrigan (Moreno) must then convince the region's settlers to remain. In response, Lagarre orders an indian attack on the Mountie camp and sets fire to the surrounding forest.