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  • The Price Demanded (1913)
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The Price Demanded (1913)
Short | Drama, Short
Through the instrumentality of Roger Van Buren, Snake Sykes, a criminal of the lowest type, is apprehended, sent to the penitentiary and swears vengeance. Roger is engaged to Rose Delane, and in his happiness gives no thought to the ...See moreThrough the instrumentality of Roger Van Buren, Snake Sykes, a criminal of the lowest type, is apprehended, sent to the penitentiary and swears vengeance. Roger is engaged to Rose Delane, and in his happiness gives no thought to the supposedly closed incident of the Snake. Just before the date set for the wedding, Roger is called away from the city by urgent business. He manages to return one evening before he had hoped, and at once telephones his fiancée that he will call. Rose has planned to accompany her parents to the opera, but upon receiving her sweetheart's message, determines to remain at home, insisting, however, that the others continue their original plans. This change of program is made after the servants have left the house, having been given an evening off, and the butler is already hurrying to the headquarters of a gang of thieves to inform them that the isolated house will he deserted and that the wedding presents would make a valuable haul. At the thieves' den the butler finds only Snake, who has escaped from prison. Snake decides the chance is too good to be lost, and undertakes to pull off the job alone. Meanwhile, Roger has joined Rose. The girl leaves him alone in the library while she goes to array herself, at his request, in her bridal costume. Snake enters the house, stumbles upon, captures and securely ties up Roger without having recognized him. Rose returns to the library and bravely attacks Snake with a revolver, which she takes from a drawer, but the ruffian seizes her wrist in such manner that she cannot bring the gun to bear upon him. As she struggles, however, she realizes that the revolver is pointed squarely at a small automatic fire alarm, of the type requiring only the breaking of the glass face to give an alarm, and pulls the trigger. A moment later the revolver is wrested from her. Snake now enforces silence by threatening death to both, and examines the wedding presents. From an announcement card he learns the identity of Roger and is filled with savage triumph. His first thought is to murder the helpless man in cold blood, then a more fiendish revenge occurs to him. He tells Rose that she may save her lover's life by giving herself to him. The girl determines to make the supreme sacrifice, and first, in heartbroken agony, removing the ring from her hand, allows the brute to take her in his arms. At this instant, the police and firemen, responding to the alarm, hammer upon the outer door. Thinking he is to he balked of his revenge, Snake furiously seizes his revolver and attempts to shoot Roger, but the girl seizes his arm and the shots go wild. Hearing the shots, the police burst in. Snake makes a desperate effort to escape, but his flight is not so swift as a deadly bullet from an officer's revolver. A moment later Rose is sobbing out her happiness and relief in the arms of her lover she has saved. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Barry O'Neil
Writer
Emmett C. Hall (as Emmett Campbell Hall)
Producer
Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Jul 26, 1913
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Jul 26, 1913 (United States)

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Harry Myers
Roger Van Buren Roger Van Buren   See fewer
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Ethel Clayton
Rose Delane Rose Delane   See fewer
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Ben Hendricks Sr.
Snake Sykes (as Ben Hendricks) Snake Sykes (as Ben Hendricks)   See fewer
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