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The Spirit of the Orient (1913)
Short | Short, Drama, Romance

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The Spirit of the Orient (1913)

Short | Short, Drama, Romance

A wealthy Englishman living in the suburbs of Bombay, the Hon. Sir Leslie Gillespie, is ensnared into marrying a beautiful but half-caste Hindu girl. He had rescued her from starvation and taken care of her, thus coming within the ...See moreA wealthy Englishman living in the suburbs of Bombay, the Hon. Sir Leslie Gillespie, is ensnared into marrying a beautiful but half-caste Hindu girl. He had rescued her from starvation and taken care of her, thus coming within the fascination of her dangerous wiles. The girl, Normallee, loves a neighbor of Gillespie, Abdalla el-Ashur. and conspires with him against the life of her husband. Abdalla gives her a vial of poison, instructing her to drop it into her husband's wine. Normallee puts a few drops of the poison into Sir Leslie's glass, but the dose is not sufficient to kill him. He becomes violently sick but is pulled through by Dr. Ericson, another neighbor and a very dear friend, who had hoped that Sir Leslie would have married his daughter, Madeline. The next day Normallee gives Sir Leslie more of the poison, but again does not give him a full dose. Dr. Ericson discovers that his sickness in each case came, after he had drunk the wine poured out by his wife, and. putting two and two together, reaches the conclusion that Normallee is trying to poison him. He tells Gillespie, who is furious, and restrains him when he would go at once to his wife to thrash out the matter. He tells Sir Leslie to wait for further developments before taking any action. A day or two later Abdalla asks Normallee about the poison and tells her that she should have emptied the whole vial. He meets her in the garden, where she is waiting for her husband to come for refreshments, and seeing the glasses of wine there, he empties the whole phial into one of them. When Sir Leslie comes, Abdalla tries to push the poisoned wine towards him, but Sir Leslie will not take it. Pretending to be explaining a game of checkers, Sir Leslie keeps on moving the glasses around so that Abdalla does not know which glass contains the poison. Sir Leslie does, however, and succeeds in passing it to Abdalla, who, on drinking it becomes seized by convulsions and dies a horrible death. Normallee, who sees that her treachery is known, rushes away, and to avoid public disgrace, drowns herself in the lake of the park. Sir Leslie seeks consolation in the society of Madeline, whom he later makes him wife. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Maurice Costello Sir Leslie Gillespie Sir Leslie Gillespie See fewer	The Man Who Couldn't Beat God (1915)
Clara Kimball Young Normallee Normallee See fewer	The Common Law (1916)
Mae Costello Madeline Ericson Madeline Ericson See fewer	Diamond Cut Diamond (I) (1912)
William V. Ranous Dr. Ericson - Madeline's Father Dr. Ericson - Madeline's Father See fewer	Treasure Island (1913)
Stephen Smith Abdallah El Ashur Abdallah El Ashur See fewer	Jack's Chrysanthemum (1913)