The Derelict (1915)

The Derelict (1915)

1915-03-03 United States of America 11 Min. PG-13
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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.

Cast

Edward Coxen is Leo Holmes
Leo Holmes
Winifred Greenwood is Louise Wilke
Louise Wilke
John Steppling is P.G. Wilke, Esq.
P.G. Wilke, Esq.
George Field is Bruce Morgan
Bruce Morgan
William Bertram is Dr. Lane