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The Reproach of Annesley
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by Maxwell Gray
Cast: Franklin Ritchie [Lieutenant Edward Annesley], Louise Vale, Alice Lingard, Herbert Barrington, Jack Drumier, Gus Pixley
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 24 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Home on furlough, Lieutenant Edward Annesley visits his cousin Paul, a prosperous young physician. Paul’s best friends are Gervase Rickman, an attorney, Rickman’s sister, and his ward, Alice Lingard, a wealthy orphan. Edward falls in love with Alice and does not at first notice the jealousy which consumes his cousin. At last Paul asks Edward to go away and let him win Alice. Annesley agrees to go away for three months. Rickman, who also loves Alice, speculates with her fortune and loses heavily. Miss Rickman’s health fails, and her brother takes her to France. Alice accompanies them, and Paul follows. Unknown to them, Annesley is also touring in the mountains. Paul puts his fortune to the test and learns that Alice loves his cousin. Leaving the party, he comes face to face with Annesley. A quarrel ensues, and Paul, after attacking Annesley, staggers over the cliff into the lake below. Rickman, who has followed Paul, witnesses the scene and offers to back Annesley up in the claim that Paul’s death was due to accident, but privily he tells Alice that her lover has murdered Paul, and poisons her mind against Annesley. Though never publicly accused of the murder, Annesley is shunned. Rickman’s sister, dying, urges Alice to marry her brother. Edward, drawn by morbid thoughts to the scene of his quarrel with Paul, meets a monk who gazes at him for an instant and flees. In that instant he recognizes Paul. Later, he is again confronted by Paul in a village church where the monk preaches. Paul, who has been rescued by the monks, tells Edward that he has thought himself guilty of Edward’s death, and has sought expiation in good works. Learning of Annesley’s reproach, he declares that he will go home and right the wrong. Rickman presses Alice to marry him. On their wedding day Paul and Annesley arrive. Confronted with proof of his baseness, Rickman confesses, and Alice marries Annesley.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 12 October 2023.
References: Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.
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