Basil, sent to a West Indian island to look after his brother's interests, so antagonizes the planters that they form a secret organization for the purpose of throwing off the Harcourt yoke. Irene, who has just inherited her father's plantation, refuses to join. Basil is later slain under circumstances which cause Irene to believe herself the murderess.
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Harry F. Millarde as Sir Henry Harcourt - a Land Owner
Alice Hollister as Irene Cross - a Tenant
James B. Ross as Blake - a Tenant
Arthur Albertson as Basil Harcourt - Sir Henry's Younger Brother
Nell Farrin as Cara - a Native Girl
William McNulty as Norris - Irene's Overseer
Harry F. Millarde Director
United States 03 November 1915
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02 June 1915
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26 April 1915
Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a mechanic, Helen yearns for fine clothes, wealth, and attention.
16 September 1915
Crime drama about the rivalry over a new invention and a nice girl.
13 September 1915
Richard Duvall is a young American detective in the employ of the French Secret Police. While in Paris he meets Grace Ellicot, also an American, with whom he falls in love.
22 April 1915
Once upon a time a professor ordered the wax figure of King Woof, a celebrated eastern potentate who had died from eating too much pomegranate juice and who had a reputation for making history.
29 March 1915
"If yew cum a lone to thee third bench from thee fontan yew will find sum one to chear your loneliness.
25 January 1915
John Keefe, a gambler, shoots and kills Robert Barrington in an argument over a card game. Keefe steals Barrington's papers and forges a bill of sale to himself for Barrington's stable of race horses back east.
07 April 1915
A man falls in love with a piano player and tries to woo her. A passerby hears a maid's music, fancies he's found his true love, and chats her up.
24 June 1915
Nicknamed "Wild Olive," Miriam Strange discovers that her mom was an Indian, she moves to a hovel close to an Allegheny stumble camp.
04 September 1915
New England fisherman Dan McQuade finds a dying woman and her daughter shipwrecked after a storm and raises the daughter, whom he names Coral.
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