File No. 113 - Production & Contact Info

File No. 113 (1915)
Short | 20 min | Drama, Short

File No. 113 (1915)

Short | 20 min | Drama, Short

Valentine de la Verberie rejects the suit of Jean Lazet, for she loves Gaston de Clameran. In a café, Lazet makes a slurring reference to Valentine, and Gaston, overhearing the remark, strikes him. In the melee that ensues. Gaston stabs ...See moreValentine de la Verberie rejects the suit of Jean Lazet, for she loves Gaston de Clameran. In a café, Lazet makes a slurring reference to Valentine, and Gaston, overhearing the remark, strikes him. In the melee that ensues. Gaston stabs Lazet. He has to flee the country. After his father's death his brother, Louis, comes into the estate. Valentine gives birth to a son, and her mother places the child in the care of foster parents. The countess then takes Valentine to Paris, where she marries the banker Fauvel. Twenty years later, Louis, now penniless, discovers that Valentine has made a wealthy marriage. Determined to profit by what he knows of her past, he visits the old peasant to whose care the infant was entrusted. He is informed that the child died of croup eighteen months after its birth. Louis then determines to substitute his champion, Raoul, for the dead boy. He presents himself at the Fauvel home and introduces Raoul to Valentine as her lost son. To keep the secret from her husband, she submits to blackmail. Also her heart goes out to the son of her youth, as she fancies. So, when the blackmailers, growing bolder, demand the key to the bank vaults, and Raoul threatens to kill himself unless she acquiesces, Valentine gives up the key. Her daughter, Madeleine, is engaged to Prosper, Fauvel's confidential clerk. Fauvel having forgotten the combination of the safe, Prosper gives it to him and is overheard by Raoul. The plotters determine to make a double haul. Louis inherits 50,000 francs from Gaston, who dies abroad, and the money is deposited in Fauvel's bank. That night Raoul enters the bank and after a desperate struggle with Valentine, who seeks to dissuade him, steals the 50,000 francs out of the vault. During the struggle the key slips and makes a deep scratch on the enamel near the lock. This scratch is noted at once by M. Lecoq. the celebrated detective, who is called into the case. Prosper is suspected and arrested. Lecoq secures a private interview with Valentine and forces a confession from her. Under instructions from Lecoq, Fauvel makes good the missing legacy. Lecoq then goes to the lodgings of Louis and Raoul. As he enters there are shots; the gendarmes, rushing in, find Louis dead and Raoul dying. The plotters have quarreled over the booty and shot each other. Prosper is at once released and restored to favor. Fauvel, when he learns all, readily forgives Valentine, who is overjoyed on hearing that Raoul was not her son. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Louise Vale Valentine de la Verherie Valentine de la Verherie See fewer	Jane Eyre (1915)
Ivan Christy Gaston Gaston See fewer	Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Franklin Ritchie Louis Louis See fewer	The Hungarian Nabob (1915)
Laura La Varnie The Countess (as Mrs. LaVarnie) The Countess (as Mrs. LaVarnie) See fewer	Vanity Fair (1923)
Jack Drumier Fauvel - the Banker Fauvel - the Banker See fewer	The Dancer's Peril (1917)
Gretchen Hartman Madeleine Madeleine See fewer	Les Misérables (1917)
Alan Hale Prosper Prosper See fewer	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
William Jefferson Raoul Raoul See fewer	Wanted by the Police (1913)
Hector V. Sarno Lecoq Lecoq See fewer	Martin Chuzzlewit (1914)