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  • Hearts of the Forest (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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Hearts of the Forest (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
Jim Carey was as devoted as any husband could have been, yet despite his unbounded kindness and love, his wife Nellie was dissatisfied, Jim was not a rich man, and Nellie, from the depths of her artificial soul, craved the pleasures which ...See moreJim Carey was as devoted as any husband could have been, yet despite his unbounded kindness and love, his wife Nellie was dissatisfied, Jim was not a rich man, and Nellie, from the depths of her artificial soul, craved the pleasures which were denied her. Because Dick Lawson could give her the luxuries her heart desired, she ran away with him. Jim Carey, left alone with his little girl, was overcome by a grief greater than anything his life had experienced before, a sorrow so lasting and deep that no ordinary means might hope to assuage it. So he took his motherless child and plunged into the great forest in the hope that in the shadow of the everlasting trees he might find oblivion and peace. Rose Graham, a widow who had lately lost her own little daughter, lived with her brother near the spot in which Jim settled. Her mother heart went out to little Bess, and she encouraged the child's visits to her home. One day Bess went out into the woods alone and was bitten by a snake. Jack Wilbur, the widow's brother, found the unconscious child, and carried her to his sister. When Jim discovered that Bess was missing, he hurried to the widow's in the hope that she might be there. Arriving at the widow's he learned that her shrewd presence of mind had probably saved the little girl's life. His unbounded gratitude grew in the weeks when Rose nursed the child back to health, to something stronger and more beautiful. The courts had granted him a decree of divorce. His way was clear. After a while, he told the widow of his feeling for her, and they were married. Meanwhile, Nellie had found, to her bitter cost, what many another had found about the primrose way of pleasure. Lawson, tiring of her, cast her off. Friendless and alone, she crept back to her old home only to learn that her husband had gone many miles away. When she followed him into the woods and arrived at his house, she looked through the window and saw Jim and Rose sitting together at the fireplace, with little Bess. Then the terrible realization fell on Nellie's heart that no earthly power could ever draw a veil across the past, and with gray, haggard face and lagging feet, she turned away. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Preston Kendall
Writer
Frances M. Wright (story)
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Updated Sep 5, 1914
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Sep 5, 1914 (United States)

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