Returning home from a matinee, Ralph Brent, a poor actor, finds his step-child dead. The child's mother returns intoxicated, having purchased drink instead of medicine for the child, with the money he had given her. He accuses her of causing the little one's death, and snatching the bottle of liquor from which she is about to drink, throws it away. Infuriated, she springs at her husband with a bread knife, stumbles and accidentally kills herself. Fearing that he will be suspected of murder. Brent hastily makes up in the disguise of an old man and leaves the house.
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Maurice Costello
Ralph Brent - the Mysterious Lodger
Also in
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Constance Talmadge
Lucy Lane
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Edwina Robbins
Mrs. Lane - Lucy's Mother
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Sonny Jim and the Amusement Company, Ltd.
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Helene Costello
Brent's Child
Also in
Lights of New York
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Estelle Mardo
Brent's Wife - the Child's Mother
Also in
The Heart of Jim Brice
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Thomas R. Mills
Lucy's Uncle
Also in
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Maurice Costello Director · Robert Gaillard Director
United States release August 27, 1914 · Produced in United States
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Vitagraph Company of America
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · August 27, 1914
Theatrical
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