Lorna Doone

The account is set in seventeenth century England. Lorna is the daughter of a noble family. As a child she meets a farm boy called John Ridd. Not long after she is carried off. The ones who take her are an outlaw family called the Doones. The girl grows up among them. She does not know where she came from. The man at the head of the family protects her. But he falls gravely ill. A young outlaw in the band then wants the girl for himself. Lorna looks for a way to get word out. She pins her hope on John Ridd. Something grows between the two of them. Lorna is ready to leave her rank behind. Madge Bellamy and John Bowers take the leads in Maurice Tourneur’s American film of 1922.