The Derelict

📅 1915 ⏱️ 11 min 🎭 Drama, Romance, Short

📋 Details

🎬 Director

Henry Otto

🌍 Countries

United States of America

🏢 Production

American Film Manufacturing Company

🗣️ Languages

No Language

🎭 Genres

Drama Romance Short

📖 Overview

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.