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The Derelict

191511m
DramaRomance

Status

Released

Release

1915

Runtime

11m

Storyline

Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could never marry a man who was a drunkard. Morgan, secretly in love with Louise, gets Leo intoxicated and sends him to her home. Louise breaks off the engagement and Bruce pursues her. Undecided, she slips into a dream where she is mired in a life of misery with Morgan, who has become a worse drunkard than Holmes as well as selfish and brutal. In trying to defend herself from Bruce she kills him with a pair of shears. Holmes, a poor derelict, hears her scream, rushes to her rescue. Louise awakens and sends for Leo.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
11m
Mar 3, 1915
Languages
No Language
Director
Henry Otto
Henry Otto
Production
American Film Manufacturing Company
American Film Manufacturing Company
Production Countries
United States of America

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