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  • The Secret Formula (1915)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Secret Formula (1915)
Short | Short, Drama
While returning from the army experimental station, Lieutenant Lawrence Barr is attacked and an unsuccessful attempt made to rob him of a secret formula for a new explosive which he carries. He continues on his way and succeeds in ...See moreWhile returning from the army experimental station, Lieutenant Lawrence Barr is attacked and an unsuccessful attempt made to rob him of a secret formula for a new explosive which he carries. He continues on his way and succeeds in delivering the formula to the scientist, Robert Bayley, who has made the discovery and with whose daughter, Louise, the lieutenant is in love. Louis Delano, an adventurer, is detailed to endeavor to secure this formula for the Norovian government and makes an attempt to purchase it from the scientist without success. During this visit Delano meets Louise and sees through her an opportunity to procure the formula. He writes her a note, telling her she has a chance to be of great help toward universal peace by securing the formula and giving it to him, for he will keep it from the world powers. Believing him to be sincere, Louise meets Delano and promises to secure the formula for him at nine o'clock that night. The chauffeur, an old army man, overhears her promise to Delano and confides what he has heard to Barr, who plans to frustrate the scheme. At eight-thirty that night, a forged note is delivered to Louise, purporting to come from Delano, and as she goes to meet him, she is overpowered and carried away by Barr, who, despite her anger and attempt to escape, holds her prisoner until such time as he thinks Delano has grown tired of waiting. Meanwhile, Delano, becoming suspicious at the delay, steals into the house and attempts to secure the formula himself. As he is searching for it, Barr brings Louise back to the house and hearing the noise, Delano switches off the lights. In the darkness he runs against and upsets the receptacle containing the explosive, with the results that it explodes and he is killed. Barr, Louise and her father, aroused by the explosion, rush into the laboratory and discover Delano, dead. On his body Barr finds a note proving the mercenary cause of his desire for the formula. Louise, now apologetic, asks forgiveness, which is willingly granted her. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Donald MacDonald
Writer
Anthony Coldeway (scenario)
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Updated Feb 22, 1915
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Feb 22, 1915 (United States)

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