(The Derelict)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama,

Romance

Runtime:

11 minutes

Year:

1915

Directors:

Henry Otto

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Production companies:

American Film Manufacturing Company

Actors:

Leo Holmes

Louise Wilke

P.G. Wilke, Esq.

Bruce Morgan

Dr. Lane

Crews:

Director

Scenario Writer