A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.
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Lionel Barrymore as The Doctor
Charles Hill Mailes as The Lunatic (The Unfortunate Patient)
Claire McDowell as The Doctor's Wife
Lillian Gish as The Nurse
Robert Harron as Asylum Guard
Christy Cabanne as Attack Victim
William Elmer as Asylum Guard
United States 10 May 1913
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