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The Awaited Hour (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

The Awaited Hour (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

Frank Colby is in the "Death House" awaiting electrocution. He makes the following confession to the prison chaplain: He, Frank Colby, has been employed as cashier in the office of Steven Farwell, a wealthy importer. Farwell was in love ...See moreFrank Colby is in the "Death House" awaiting electrocution. He makes the following confession to the prison chaplain: He, Frank Colby, has been employed as cashier in the office of Steven Farwell, a wealthy importer. Farwell was in love with Colby's wife, Florence, and she with him. Farwell planned to get rid of Colby so that he could marry Florence. He manipulates a check for $5,000 and has Colby arrested for forgery and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. Florence then divorces the convicted man and marries Farwell. In prison Colby hears of the divorce and marriage and swears to be revenged. In due time he is put to work in the engine room of the penitentiary and all the time is watching for an opportunity to escape. A fellow-prisoner, John Adams, who is paroled, agrees to assist him in his escape. At the hour agreed on, Adams comes to the outside of the prison and secrets a suitcase containing a suit of clothes, a pistol, a pair of handcuffs, and rope. Adams also is mounted on a horse and is himself garbed in prison clothes. By means of a coil of belting which is revolving in the engine room, and which, in its revolution, is carried past a window. Colby effects his escape. He clings to the belting and allows himself to be carried up and past the window, through which, by a prodigious spring, and amid a fusillade of shots from the prison guards, he gains his freedom. Adams, on his horse, leads the prison guards on the wrong scent and also escapes. Colby finds the suitcase and changes his clothes. He then steals away up the road until he meets a farmer, seizes his rig and drives to the railroad depot. He safely boards a train and arrives in New York, taking his suitcase containing his prison garb, etc., with him. He goes to Farwell's house and breaks in through the window and surprises Farwell in his library alone. He covers him with his pistol, handcuffs him and binds his legs together. He then goes to Farwell's private desk and takes bonds, stocks, securities and money, which he tears up and burns. He then forces Farwell to mount a chair and puts a noose around his neck and attaches the rope to the chandelier above his head. He ties a rope to the leg of the chair and throws this rope out of the window. He then goes through the window himself and outside pulls the rope, dragging the chair from under his victim. Farwell dangles and suffers a felon's fate. Colby then garbs himself once more in prison garb and puts himself in the way of a passing policeman, who, of course, promptly arrests him. Florence, his former wife, drives past in her auto and sees the arrest and recognizes him and is terror-stricken, although she does not discover until she arrives home that she has lost Steven Farwell and practically is a pauper. This closes Frank Colby's confession to the chaplain, and it is no sooner finished than the prison guards enter the cell and lead him out to where he meets his doom. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
William Clifford Frank Colby Frank Colby See fewer	The Hidden Law (1916)
Violet Mersereau Mrs. Frank Colby Mrs. Frank Colby See fewer	Together (1918)
William E. Shay The Prison Chaplain The Prison Chaplain See fewer	Robespierre (1913)
William Welsh Stephen Farwell - the Employer Stephen Farwell - the Employer See fewer	The Bull's Eye (1917)