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Toys of Fate (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

Toys of Fate (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

Angelo Latini, his wife, Teresa, and their little daughter, Rosa, Italian immigrants, arrive in California. Leaving the train in a large city, the little family is attracted by a wireworker, and Angelo buys for Rosa a brooch which spells ...See moreAngelo Latini, his wife, Teresa, and their little daughter, Rosa, Italian immigrants, arrive in California. Leaving the train in a large city, the little family is attracted by a wireworker, and Angelo buys for Rosa a brooch which spells the name "Rosa." Then Angelo sights an Italian fruit stand across the street. Rosa is tired. Teresa sits on the old-fashioned gripsack and holds the child in her arms while Angelo goes to buy some fruit. Albert Hayes, a labor employment agent, has an order to provide strikebreakers for a large foundry. Unable to get sufficient volunteers, Hayes resorts to the shanghai method. Angelo is enticed into the agency by Hayes and when the Italian protests he is knocked down and out. He is taken to the foundry and compelled to work by armed guards. Teresa, alarmed at Angelo's absence, finally tries to find him. The Italian woman, however, cannot speak English and the police only order her to move on. After three days and nights of wandering without shelter, Teresa dies of starvation in one of the parks. Rosa, unable to awaken her mother, wanders away, crying. Mrs. Hayes, a gentle, childless woman, meets Rosa in the park and the child leads her to the dead Teresa. The motherless little Italian girl, whose only name is Rosa, is adopted by the Hayes and taken east. Later Angelo escapes from the foundry yard. He can find no trace of his wife and baby. He swears vengeance against Hayes, the man who shanghaied him. Fifteen years later Hayes returns to California, having been awarded a big construction contract at Deep Gulch. Roland Sands, the superintendent in charge of the work, and Rosa (now Rose Hayes), a pretty girl of twenty-one, are sweethearts, Angelo, in his wanderings. comes to Deep Gulch and is given a laborer's job. Hayes, Mrs. Hayes and Rose visit the work and take possession of Sands' shack on the side of a deep canyon. There is trouble with the laborers. Angelo recognizes Hayes as the latter uses his old bullying tactics on the men. Angelo, his old hatred fanned into a flame, urges the laborers to drag Hayes' shack down into the canyon. The sight of the "Rosa" brooch given to Sands by Rose as a keepsake, makes Angelo realize that Rose is his daughter. The Italian, by a superhuman effort, saves Hayes, Mrs. Hayes and Rose, but goes down to his own death in the falling shack. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Melvin Mayo Actor Actor See fewer	The Death Warrant (1914)
William Parsons Actor (as W.E. Parsons) Actor (as W.E. Parsons) See fewer	Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
George Routh Actor Actor See fewer	While the Children Slept (1913)
Julia Scott Actress Actress See fewer	Toys of Fate (1914)
Lee Shumway Actor (as L.C. Shumway) Actor (as L.C. Shumway) See fewer	Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)
Velma Whitman Actress Actress See fewer	Some Boy (1917)