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Beyond All Is Love (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

Beyond All Is Love (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

Prologue: Stuyvesant Hardy, a wealthy man, comes home to his wife and young son. He greets them happily, goes upstairs to his room and takes a drug which transforms him from a gentleman to a bestial and mean brute. He goes from the house ...See morePrologue: Stuyvesant Hardy, a wealthy man, comes home to his wife and young son. He greets them happily, goes upstairs to his room and takes a drug which transforms him from a gentleman to a bestial and mean brute. He goes from the house and seeks out the roughest of companions in men and women. His wife, who is frail, dies during her husband's four-day debauch. Coming home, he finds his motherless son. It is this shock which braces Stuyvesant Hardy and saves him thereafter from the drug. The Story: Will Hardy, the grandson of Stuyvesant Hardy, is sent to college where, doing athletic sports, his leg is broken. The doctor leaves medicine for him. Instructions are that he is to take one dose in case of. severe pain. But Hardy suffers so that he takes another dose, and the next day bribes the porter to have the box refilled. In this way the youth contracts the drug habit. He is a brilliant fellow and graduates a valedictorian from college, with his secret affliction. He goes into his father's law office, the father having escaped the hereditary taint. The drug habit has him in its clutches, and he is compelled to live a Jekyll and Hyde existence. He has the inherited craving for low life and bestial living whenever under the narcotic. When the sale of drugs is put under the jurisdiction of the State he has a hard time. About this time his father takes a case against John Kerry, a crooked ward heeler. On one his debaucheries Will meets Edna Murray, who is a tool of John Kerry. She gets drugs for Will, and he, in his morbid condition, becomes enamored of her, not remembering bis sweetheart, Virginia Wells, whom he loves deeply while in his moral senses. It is the object of Kerry to get Will so tied up with Edna that he can hold it over the head of the prosecuting attorney when the time comes. Virginia, who is interested in mission work, has a fleeting glance of the dope victim in company with the Murray woman, but does not realize it is Will. The face affects her strangely, and when she sees her sweetheart again, who has supposedly been away on a trip, she tells him of this strange resemblance. The trial of Kerry draws near. Virginia that day, returning from the mission, wanders to where she saw the man resembling Will. She runs to him, in the company of the Murray woman and Kerry. She realizes it is her sweetheart and follows them to a den belonging to Kerry. Virginia rushes back to Will's father, who receives a note written by Will, at Kerry's command, stating that he will be harmed unless the case against Kerry is called off. Virginia tells where Will is hidden. The father phones detectives, and together they go to Will's rescue. They take him home, and when the drug wears off Will realizes, as his grandfather realized, what the drug had brought him to, and now Virginia's love had triumphed. He takes Virginia into his arms and then falls to her feet in humility and gratitude. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Francis Joyner Will Hardy Will Hardy See fewer	Mr. Housekeeper (1916)
Helen Greene Virginia Welles Virginia Welles See fewer	Bab's Diary (1917)
Carrie Reynolds Edna Murray Edna Murray See fewer	A Mother's Confession (1915)
Peter Lang John Kerry John Kerry See fewer	The College Widow (1915)
Walter Law Hardy's Father Hardy's Father See fewer	Camille (1917)
Eleanor Barry Hardy's Mother Hardy's Mother See fewer	Heartaches (1915)