THE DERELICT (1915)
Not Rated
The Derelict
Drama, Romance
March 3, 1915
English
0h 11m
United States
American Film Manufacturing Company
Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could never marry a man who was a drunkard. Morgan, secretly in love with Louise, gets Leo intoxicated and sends him to her home. Louise breaks off the engagement and Bruce pursues her. Undecided, she slips into a dream where she is mired in a life of misery with Morgan, who has become a worse drunkard than Holmes as well as selfish and brutal. In trying to defend herself from Bruce she kills him with a pair of shears. Holmes, a poor derelict, hears her scream, rushes to her rescue. Louise awakens and sends for Leo.
Cast & Characters
Edward Coxen
Leo Holmes
Winifred Greenwood
Louise Wilke
John Steppling
P.G. Wilke, Esq.
George Field
Bruce Morgan
William Bertram
Dr. Lane
Crew
Henry Otto
Director