The quiet life style of Ruth Heck and her brother Lem, who belong to a religious sect called the Seekers, is disrupted when a judge imprisons Lem for a crime he did not commit.
Watch the official The Seekers 1916 trailer in HD below.
Flora Parker DeHaven as Ruth Heck
Charles Hill Mailes as Reverend Israel Mount (as Charles Mailes)
Edward Hearn as John Mount
Edwin B. Tilton as Undetermined Role (as Edwin Booth)
Florence Noar as Undetermined Role
Countess Du Cello as Undetermined Role (as Mary DuCello)
Paul Byron as Lem Heck
United States 17 July 1916
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A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested.
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A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red.
03 May 1916
Mr Vang, a clerk, has just moved into the fourth floor of a block of flats – and he has already gained a reputation as something of a troublemaker.
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A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....
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