Dr. Mureaux, a widower, has an only daughter, Ruth. One night when her father is away, a burglar breaks into the house. Ruth displays great courage, winning the admiration of the intruder. She questions him about his mode of living and finally induces the man to promise that he will return in a few days when she will do all in her power to get him an honest job.
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David Thompson as Dr. Mureaux
Marguerite Marsh as Ruth - Dr. Mureaux's Daughter
James Durkin as The Burglar
Morgan Jones as A Detective
N.Z. Wood as The Butler
Joseph Phillips as The Warden
James Durkin Director
United States 13 November 1914
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1914:
21 November 1914
In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs up between two men who are seeking Helen's favor, but to whom she has remained impartial.
24 October 1914
A doctor kills and embalms a woman in order to preserve her beauty.
25 November 1914
Aggie has survived the measles, mumps and scarlet rash, so when she brought home the high school diploma her parents thought she was a young lady now and couldn't catch anything more.
05 April 1914
A convivial evening at Hoag's Tavern is interrupted by a young companion, William Fentise, declaring to the assembled company that he is very much in love with Sylvia, known as "Cherry," the beautiful daughter of Mr.
15 November 1914
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho.
24 April 1914
Kate Clarke and her brother, Joe, are alone in the world. Kate learns of her brother's connection with a counterfeiter's gang only when the police invade their rooms to arrest Joe.
25 May 1914
General Wolfe, appointed commander of the expedition against Quebec, comes to bid his mother goodbye.
02 November 1914
The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage.
27 June 1914
Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, prettier and flightier of the two.
21 January 1914
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent.
26 September 1914
Broncho Billy shoots an outlaw for making a disrespectful remark about his sweetheart. After the shooting he hastens to her home and tells her he has shot a man, but does not know who he is.
30 May 1914
Mary Jones, slavey, lonely and unloved, advertises in a matrimonial paper for a good man to marry her.
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