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  • Short | Short, Drama
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Shadows (1913)
Short | Short, Drama
Lester Nayne, a young artist, visiting a New England village, chances to meet Evelyn Thorn, a girl whose life is shadowed by what is to her a mystery. She lives with her father in the gloomy old Thorn place from which John Thorn never ...See moreLester Nayne, a young artist, visiting a New England village, chances to meet Evelyn Thorn, a girl whose life is shadowed by what is to her a mystery. She lives with her father in the gloomy old Thorn place from which John Thorn never emerges. Evelyn has vainly asked why she is shunned by the people, and her only friend, a kind old priest, tells her that it is best she shall not know. The friendship between Lester and Evelyn grows to love, and when the old priest learns of this he realizes that the girl must be told the thing that has been kept from her so long, that in the Thorn blood there is hereditary madness. Heartbroken, Evelyn sends to Lester a brief farewell, knowing that she can never be his wife. Crushed by the tragedy of the girl's life and the hopelessness of his own love, Lester prepares to go away. Evelyn, feeling that she cannot endure the life of misery that seems to stretch before her, determines to end it all. Lester, already on his way, rescues her, unconscious, from the river and carries her to her home. Shortly after Evelyn left the house, John Thorn realized that at last the curse of his blood was about to come upon him, and sought the mercy of speedy death. The priest found a sealed packet addressed to himself, and containing, besides certain legal documents, a message from John Thorn. Evelyn is restored to consciousness, and the old priest reads her Thorn's message, that she has in her veins not one drop of the tainted Thorn blood; that he stole her, for revenge, when a baby, but that, coming to love her, he could not bring himself to confess and thereby rob his life of its only joy; that the documents will establish her true identity. But to Evelyn only one thing is of consequence, the fact that she is free to find happiness in the arms of the lover, whom the old priest leads into the room. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Nov 18, 1913
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Nov 18, 1913 (United States)

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Leslie Wayne Leslie Wayne   See fewer
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Evelyn Thorne Evelyn Thorne   See fewer
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Thorne - Evelyn's Father (as Frank Tidmarsh) Thorne - Evelyn's Father (as Frank Tidmarsh)   See fewer
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