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  • The Cage Man (1916)
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The Cage Man (1916)
Short | Short, Drama
Pacing up and down his narrow cell, 341 was interrupted by the arrival of one of the guards. The warden had received papers from the governor permitting 341 to go out on probation. He notified the guard of this, and requested that 341 be ...See morePacing up and down his narrow cell, 341 was interrupted by the arrival of one of the guards. The warden had received papers from the governor permitting 341 to go out on probation. He notified the guard of this, and requested that 341 be brought to his office before leaving. In the long hours of his confinement 341 had often brooded over the circumstances which had sent him to prison, and planned over and over again how he would revenge himself upon those who he believed had sent him up. With the change from the prison uniform to civilian clothes 341, too, becomes changed. He goes into the warden's office, and is given what possessions he had when he was placed behind the walls. Arriving in the city, 341 secures a room and immediately plans the execution of his long-hoped-for vengeance. His mind reverts to the days of the past in which he and his chum, a young doctor, both sought to win the same girl. 341 was the lucky suitor, and his cave man ways won the girl. Possession dulled the desire, however, and 341 became a heavy drinker, leaving his wife alone the greater part of the time. The young doctor took his defeat nobly and for a long time did not even see the girl. 341 goes from bad to worse, and spends all of his time drinking and gambling. The doctor sees the wife neglected and is unable to resist bestowing upon her his sympathy. 341 finds the two together one day and angrily warns the doctor away. A child is born to the couple. The father, half drunk in a gambling house, refuses to go home. The doctor learns of the wife's condition, and goes to the house himself. Through his efforts the wife is pulled through the ordeal, while 341 refuses to go home at all. With the break of day, the party breaks up and 341 arrives home to find his wife and the doctor alone. In his drunken condition he mistakes the relation between the two, and, pulling a gun, threatens to send them to a place where they can carry on their love making unhindered. The butler, hearing the discussion, calls the police, who arrive on the scene as 341 starts to shoot the doctor. In the struggle one of the policemen is shot and falls to the floor. It is for this crime that 341 was sent to the pen. Brooding upon and magnifying his imaginary wrongs, 341 secures a loaded revolver and determines to be revenged. He spends many days in his search, and is invariably followed and hunted by officers who know he is a paroled convict. He begins to feel the effect of the constant tension, but finally locates his wife and the doctor. He watches them through a lighted window and sees the little child go in to bid her parents good night and hears the little one ask its mother where her daddy is. The mother tells the child that her real daddy is in heaven and the little one goes to bed. A reaction sets in, and 341 realizes that the woman is now happier than he could ever have hoped to make her. Thoughts of vengeance are forgotten, and he desires to get back to prison. He sneaks in the window and kisses the child without awakening her. As he comes from the grounds, he is suddenly halted by a bunch of cops, and the resentment against the police which he has felt since they hounded him, comes to the surface. He attacks them with fury, and before being overpowered, succeeds in putting several of them on the hospital list. A few days later the warden is called to receive another "guest" and discovers his old friend 341, who says he has come back home. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Jacques Jaccard
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Harold C. Burr | Jacques Jaccard (scenario)
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Updated Jun 10, 1916
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Jun 10, 1916 (United States)

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