The Derelict
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1915 · 11 min · Drama · Romance · TMDB 7.0/10
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.
Directed by Henry Otto
Cast
- Edward Coxen — Leo Holmes
- Winifred Greenwood — Louise Wilke
- John Steppling — P.G. Wilke, Esq.
- George Field — Bruce Morgan
- William Bertram — Dr. Lane