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Release Date:
November 3, 1914
Original Title:
Fires of Fate
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Dick Fellows is jilted by his sweetheart and is left with a beautifully furnished little apartment. He locks up the flat and moves to a hotel. Months pass and a mysterious girl in the hotel interests him. She is alone and evidently has some great sorrow. Discovering that she is unable to pay her bill, Dick is more interested than ever. One night fire sweeps the hotel. Dick risks his life to rescue her, and learns that she has been deserted by the man she came to marry. Amidst the roar of the flames their sorrows are united in a bond of common love, and they are saved from death only after a terrific struggle several stories above the street.
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