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The Unknown Country (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
Robert Strong and Edgar Marsh are friends and medical classmates who have delved deeply into the occult, and Marsh has developed hypnotic powers to a high degree. The particular object they're working toward is to determine the exact ...See moreRobert Strong and Edgar Marsh are friends and medical classmates who have delved deeply into the occult, and Marsh has developed hypnotic powers to a high degree. The particular object they're working toward is to determine the exact relation of completely suspended animation to death. Both fall in love with Alice Gray, who eventually becomes engaged to Robert. He abandons the research hitherto carried forward with Marsh. Marsh conceals his hatred for Strong, pretending a warm friendship. Just before the time set for the marriage of Robert to Alice, Marsh arrives at startling conclusions as the result of his researches, and induces Robert to assist in a demonstration. Without informing him of the exact nature of the experiment, Marsh, hypnotizing first Robert and then himself, brings about a total suspension of animation in both bodies, setting free the inner natures or souls. That of Marsh, a hideous thing, quickly enters the body of Robert, but that of Robert, with understanding and vision unclouded by the flesh, will not enter Marsh's form. Marsh, clothed in Robert's body, proposes to take Robert's place as Alice's future husband, but her spiritual love cannot be deceived--though her physical senses are and she breaks her engagement at the last moment, though why she suddenly recoils in horror from her lover she cannot explain even to herself. Defeated, Marsh, in Robert's body, returns to the place where his own body still lies inanimate, and sets himself free from his borrowed case. Robert's soul immediately repossesses his own form and he flees from the accursed place. Marsh's spirit undertakes to re-enter his own body, but cannot; the body has remained untenanted by a soul for too long, and has passed from the state of suspended animation to that of true death. The same instinct which warned her against Marsh in the form of her lover tells Alice that all is well when Robert comes to her, and they have the promise of a happy future. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Emmett C. Hall (story)
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Siegmund Lubin
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Nov 20, 1914 (United States)

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