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  • Victims of Ingratitude (1912)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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Victims of Ingratitude (1912)
Short | Short, Drama
Helene and Mario, a young married couple, living happily in their palatial home in Naples, receive a letter of appeal from Helene's old school chum, Gina, who has experienced a succession of reverses which ended in the death of her husband...See moreHelene and Mario, a young married couple, living happily in their palatial home in Naples, receive a letter of appeal from Helene's old school chum, Gina, who has experienced a succession of reverses which ended in the death of her husband. They immediately extend an invitation to the woman to visit them. Plans for Gina's future are discussed and they offer her the place of housekeeper and overseer of their country estate. This she accepts, but Gina grows discontented and fosters in her breast a feeling of jealousy for the woman who has befriended her, and this she allows to develop into a deep hatred. Helene and her husband pay a visit to the country place and while gathering wild flowers in a rocky glen, Helene meets with an accident, which confines her to her apartment for several weeks. It is then that Mario becomes infatuated with Gina. Helene, recovered from the fall, returns to her home. Later Helene seeks solace in travel, after securing a divorce from Mario. In England she meets the son of a wealthy French ship-builder. The two fall in love and are married. They make a tour of the world, returning after a year to her husband's home in Havre. Mario and Gina were married, but all has not gone well with their plans. With a wild desire for pleasure and excitement, Gina has thrown herself into the whirlpool of fast society in the big European capitals, and her expensive habits and propensity for gambling have wrecked the fortune of the young man. He is sued for debt, and to escape a jail sentence which hangs over him, he is forced to flee from his own country. He goes to France, and there, penniless and without friends, assumes another name and secures employment as a laborer in a great ship-building yard, being placed by the foreman in the Submarine Department. Here Mario labors for many weary months. Word is passed among the employees of the big plant, that their employer's son has returned. The men prepare a big floral horseshoe in honor of the occasion and draw lots among them for one to express their congratulations and esteem in a presentation speech. This falls to Mario. In the tragic moment of their meeting, Helene and Mario are brought to a thorough realization of the awful gulf which separates them. Mario, overcome with shame and remorse, slinks from the house. Wandering back to the shops, he assists in drawing in a diver who has become exhausted at his work. He volunteers to take the man's place and, getting into the diver's heavy outfit, he is lowered to the bottom of the sea. Immediately he cuts the air-tube and connecting lines, and the helpers, knowing his peril, cry for assistance and attempt a rescue. But they are too late to save the unfortunate man. Other divers descend into the water and after a search bring his lifeless body to the bank. News of the accident spreads to the house and, through a field glass, Helene sees and recognizes her former husband as he is carried to the shop. The truth breaks upon her and she falls fainting. Recovering consciousness, Helene kneels, and with all the fervor of her good and simple soul, prays to God to pardon the man whom she herself has already pardoned. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Giuseppe de Liguoro
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Updated Aug 16, 1912
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1912 (Italy)

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