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  • The Collingsby Pearls (1915)
  • Short | Short, Drama, Mystery
The Collingsby Pearls (1915)
Short | Short, Drama, Mystery
John Collingsby is a very wealthy broker. Having made a small fortune on a deal he buys his wife a wonderful string of pearls. She is exceedingly proud of them and causes an article to be put in the society columns of one of the local ...See moreJohn Collingsby is a very wealthy broker. Having made a small fortune on a deal he buys his wife a wonderful string of pearls. She is exceedingly proud of them and causes an article to be put in the society columns of one of the local papers, describing the jewels. A sudden reverse comes to Mr. Collingsby and he is in immediate need of a large sum of money to save his business from ruin. In order to raise the money he pledges his wife's pearls unknown to her, and has a duplicate set of imitation pearls made. They substitute for the real ones. Dowling, a society thief, scrapes acquaintance with Mrs. Collingsby at a tango tea. He plans to steal her pearls. He has a disagreement with one of the gang, who thinks he is wasting too much time courting Mrs. Collingsby. Collingsby also is constantly finding the burglar in his home. A member of the underworld gang, in order to avenge himself on Dowling, steals the pearls, thinking they are the real ones. As it happens, both he and Dowling enter the house at the same time and have a terrific battle in the dark, fighting their way out of the room and down the stairs. The other man finally so injures Dowling that he falls unconscious. The burglar makes away with the jewel casket. The fight awakens Mrs. Collingsby and the servants. She goes to the assistance of Dowling. whom she does not suspect, especially when he explains to her that he was passing the house, saw the burglar and entered to stop the theft. Mrs. Collingsby sends the servant for a doctor and she is attending the society burglar when her husband returns home from the club. Seeing his wife nursing Dowling he denounces her for her supposed infidelity. She then tells him of the loss of the pearls. Meanwhile the underworld leader has been caught by the police a little distance from the house and brought back. He confronts Dowling and exposes him to the police. Mrs. Collingsby takes hack her pearls with a cry of joy. The men are taken to jail. Mrs. Collingsby opens the jewel casket to find it is empty, the burglars, before being arrested, having taken the pearls and passed them along to a confederate. Collingsby, however, brings out the real pearls and returns them to his wife with a well-deserved warning against making chance acquaintances. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Richard Garrick
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Jan 6, 1915 (United States)

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5 cast members
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Lottye Fowler primary photo
Lottye Fowler
Mrs. John Collingsby Mrs. John Collingsby   See fewer
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Richard Garrick primary photo
Richard Garrick
Mr. John Collingsby Mr. John Collingsby   See fewer
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Francis Herberlein
Dowling - a Society Thief Dowling - a Society Thief   See fewer
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Fred Sumner primary photo
Fred Sumner
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Irma Earle primary photo
Irma Earle
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