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A Cruel Revenge (1914)
Short | 22 min | Short, Drama

A Cruel Revenge (1914)

Short | 22 min | Short, Drama

Lily Adair is forced by her society-struck mother to live far beyond their means. Her mother hopes that Lily will eventually make a good match, and to this end encourages the advances of Stephen Peters, a multi-millionaire, seventy years ...See moreLily Adair is forced by her society-struck mother to live far beyond their means. Her mother hopes that Lily will eventually make a good match, and to this end encourages the advances of Stephen Peters, a multi-millionaire, seventy years old. On a day when the bills have come in thick and fast, when the servants have been asking for wages overdue, and the girl feels at the end of her resources, old Peters proposes. The girl is horrified at first, but feeling it is the only way out, she accepts him. But later the girl realizes the immensity of her act and sends back his ring. As he walks up and down the room in anger he hears a noise against the window. He opens it to disclose a man in convict garb cowering on the ledge. There is no fight left in the hunted starving man, and he pleads for shelter. Peters gets an idea. He will dress this ex-convict as a gentleman, introduce him to society, force him to pay attention to Lily Adair and when they become engaged, humble her pride by a disclosure of facts. A month later the convict, as Sir John Clyde, meets Lily Adair at a ball. They fall in love and before long become engaged. On the day the engagement is to be announced Peters calls up the warden of the jail and tells him where an escaped convict is to be found that evening. As John rises to toast his bride- to-be, the warden and the police enter. As John is about to be lead away two gentlemen enter. One announces himself as the British Consul and tells them his companion is the Earl of Clyde, John's brother. Proceedings are stopped as the Earl tells that years before John and the present Earl (Seymour), brothers, came to America to work in a large bank. They were of good family, but poor. Seymour was addicted to gambling and lost all his money at cards. One day he borrowed some funds from the bank, hoping to recoup his losses, but he lost that also. Desperate, he returned to his rooms to find a letter from an English law firm, stating that his cousin had died, leaving him next in kin to his uncle, the Earl's title. He does not know what to do and confesses his crime to John, who feels that, as younger brother, it is his duty to protect the name. He shoulders his brother's crime and sends Seymour back to England. When John realizes his love for Lily he wrote his brother, asking for the truth at last, and in response to his letter, the Earl came to America. All are convinced of John's innocence. Peters, his plan of vengeance frustrated, leaves the house angrily. The Earl enters into conversation with the warden, while Lily goes into John's outstretched arms. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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John Ince Sir John Clyde Sir John Clyde See fewer	The Great Jewel Robbery (1925)
Betty Brice Lily Adair (as Rosetta Brice) Lily Adair (as Rosetta Brice) See fewer	Michael Strogoff (1914)
Percy Winter Stephen Peters Stephen Peters See fewer	The Other Girl (II) (1915)

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