Through the Flames (1914) [NR]
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Featuring:
Guy Coombs, Alice Hollister, Marguerite Courtot
Written by:
Mrs. Owen Bronson
Directed by:
Robert G. Vignola
Release Date:
June 24, 1914
Original Title:
Through the Flames
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Kalem Company
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Donald Hall discovers that his wife is engaged in a flirtation with Major Humphreys. The husband forbids Marion to see the man again. Despite this injunction, the woman accompanies Humphries to a road house with a party of friends, while Donald is at a directors' meeting. A fire breaks out and destroys the road house. Marion and Humphreys barely escape. Fearing to return home, the woman heeds Humphreys' pleas and elopes with him. Her handbag is found in the ruins of the building. Donald is led to believe his wife dead.
Donald Hall discovers that his wife is engaged in a flirtation with Major Humphreys. The husband forbids Marion to see the man again. Despite this injunction, the woman accompanies Humphries to a road house with a party of friends, while Donald is at a directors' meeting. A fire breaks out and destroys the road house. Marion and Humphreys barely escape. Fearing to return home, the woman heeds Humphreys' pleas and elopes with him. Her handbag is found in the ruins of the building. Donald is led to believe his wife dead. Overwhelmed, he goes to the country. There he meets Milly Rogers. As time passes, the two fall in love. Donald makes Milly his wife. In a distant land, Humphries tires of Marion and deserts her. The woman thereupon resolves to return to her husband. Ascertaining Donald's whereabouts, the woman enters the country home of Donald and Milly. The terrible revelation causes Milly to swoon. Stunned, Donald makes provisions for Marion. Forbidden to see Milly by her father, the unhappy man departs for the west. Shortly afterward, Donald receives a message telling him that Milly had died in childbirth. Three years later, old Rogers and his grandchild pass over the bridge where Donald had first met Milly, The child places her doll on the handrail and forgets it. Late that night, Donald, heartsick and weary, returns to the spot where he and Milly had met. Tired of life, the man raises a pistol to his head. A little figure trudging toward him, stays his hand. The child's features reveal her identity to Donald. As the little one reaches for the doll she had forgotten, the trembling man inquiries her name. A moment later, Donald Hall presses his daughter to his breast.
