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  • The Windfall (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Windfall (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
Sisters Anna and Grace Carson, working girls, receive through a London lawyer notice of a legacy of $500 each. The news spreads until it is thought to be $50,000. Tradesmen shower their goods upon the girls. Anna is prudent, but headstrong...See moreSisters Anna and Grace Carson, working girls, receive through a London lawyer notice of a legacy of $500 each. The news spreads until it is thought to be $50,000. Tradesmen shower their goods upon the girls. Anna is prudent, but headstrong Grace makes lavish selections. Believing them to be heiresses, a society leader introduces the girls at a reception and her son Phillip, is attracted to Anna. The girls become favorites and are swept into reckless extravagance and debt. Phillip proposes to Anna, but she refuses rather than confess the deception. Bills pour in and creditors clamor. The girls run away, leaving a note to their creditors begging for time. Anna goes ahead to get the tickets, leaving Grace to buy something. When Grace does not follow, Anna boards the train to New York, confident that her sister is in another car. Thus they are separated, for Grace, meanwhile, has been run down by an auto and lies unconscious in a hospital. Anna is frantic over her sister's absence and suspects that she has gone to Phillip for aid. Not daring to reveal her whereabouts, she secures a room and looks for work. Grace leaves the hospital and goes to New York. She rents a room next door to Anna's lodging place. Undreamed by either, the sisters are living on opposite sides of the airshaft. The creditors take possession of the old home and propose an auction. Phillip prevails upon them to wait, feeling that he must and will trace the girls. He takes charge of mail for Anna and his search brings him to New York. Anna, discouraged and exhausted, is eating her frugal dinner. Across the way Grace is heating water on an alcohol stove. It overturns and soon the room is in flames, with Grace panic-stricken. Anna knows that someone needs help. Snatching several bed slats, she swings them across the shaft, crosses the narrow sagging bridge and plunges into the room to find Grace unconscious. The fire has been discovered and the first passer-by is urged to give the alarm. The man is Phillip. Anna carries her sister across to safety just as the firemen and Phillip burst in. There is recognition all around. Phillip gives Anna the undelivered letter. She learns that through an error in cabling the legacy is not $500, but $5,000. The debts are paid in full and Anna admits that now nothing stands between Phillip and herself. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Jan 26, 1914
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Jan 26, 1914 (United States)

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