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  • The Right of Might (1917)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Right of Might (1917)
Short | Short, Drama
Some people go through life believing that "Right is Might," that power and riches are the essentialities in this world. However, John Willis, wealthy and powerful, learned that the battle is not always to the strong. Willis refused to ...See moreSome people go through life believing that "Right is Might," that power and riches are the essentialities in this world. However, John Willis, wealthy and powerful, learned that the battle is not always to the strong. Willis refused to place safety devices in his extensive industrial plants. John Willis could not sway Mary Smith by influence or riches. He loved her but she informed him that he could not buy his way into grace and that he must learn to know that the power of riches is not everything in this world. John Willis only laughed, but Mary Smith began to tell him a story. She told of a father and his young daughter made idle through the Willis lockout, how matters went from bad to worse and finally the old man suffered a breakdown from privation and the girl rendered desperate by want, married a man who was a crook and a gangster. She did this solely to secure money that she might take home to her parents, but when she took this money home her mother refused to believe that she had been married, would not listen to any explanation and ordered her from the house. Finally the girl's sweetheart returned after a long hunt for work. Searching for the girl he found that she had married the gangster. She urged him to leave the house for her husband might return and might kill him. The husband did return and the girl and her former sweetheart trying to escape, fell from a second story window to their death. After Mary Smith had finished her story, realization came to John Willis that it was the evil power of his money, his slogan "Right is Might," that had caused deaths and other troubling occurrences. He resolved to install the safety devices in his mills and reopen them. See less
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George Barber
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George Barber
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Updated Jul 31, 1917
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Jul 1917 (United States)

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