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Monsieur Nikola Dupree (1915)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

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Monsieur Nikola Dupree (1915)

Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

Pierre, the artist, in his garret, sits reading two letters. One is from his old mother, begging him to come back home as she needs his loving care. The other is from Maurice, a millionaire chum, urging Pierre to come and live in luxury in...See morePierre, the artist, in his garret, sits reading two letters. One is from his old mother, begging him to come back home as she needs his loving care. The other is from Maurice, a millionaire chum, urging Pierre to come and live in luxury in return for teaching him how to paint. Pierre murmurs. "My poor old mother," drops a tear on the words she has written, and promptly accepts his rich friend's offer. Then he turns. Standing in the doorway is a slender, dark-complexioned fellow, with a pointed beard. The stranger regards him with a smile. At the millionaire's home, both young men fall in love with Mariette, the beauty of the neighborhood. She prefers the artist because he is "so romantic." But when the millionaire proposes she says "yes." "For love in a cottage," she tells herself, "has positively gone out of date." The artist sorrowfully resigns himself to her choice. He feels no better, however, when he happens to see the black bearded apparition. Pierre escapes to Monte Carlo, where he loses all his money. M. Nick (for this is the name of the apparition) lends him funds. The artist sagely wins back his losings, pays his debts and departs. He has no intention of giving the devil first mortgage on his soul. Again in Paris, he finds that Mariette has jilted the millionaire, for, after all, she loves the poor artist. Pierre would do anything for his bride. So he hastens to M. Nick to borrow money for the wedding trip. Arriving at the home of his peculiar guardian spirit, he is not a whit dismayed by the growling of the thunder and the blinding flashes of lightning, which seem to warn him against this reprehensible step he is taking. And then he discovers that M. Nick does not hail from the lower regions, after all. He is really Pierre's long-lost uncle who intensely approves of his nephew because he will not consent to go and live upon the savings of his old mother, because he has left the gaming-table when he has won back his money, and particularly, because he was unselfish enough to give up the girl he loved. Everything considered, M. Nick decides to make Pierre his heir. And so, it is shown, that very often a man who looks like the devil is not a devil at all. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Ernest C. Warde Monsieur Nikola Dupree Monsieur Nikola Dupree See fewer	King Lear (1916)
Florence La Badie Manette Manette See fewer	The Million Dollar Mystery (1914)
J. Morris Foster Maurice - the Millionaire (as Morris Foster) Maurice - the Millionaire (as Morris Foster) See fewer	The Secret Man (1917)
Harris Gordon Pierre - the Artist Pierre - the Artist See fewer	The Mill on the Floss (1915)