The Fugitive
A Gripping Drama of Mystery and Sublime, Unselfish Love.
1916 en 50 minutes
Rating: 10
Plot
Margery Carew and her widowed sister, Anna Prentice, find work in a brokerage firm, James Gray, the junior partner, soon falls in love with Margery, while his boss, William Cleves, does his best to seduce Anna. In fighting off William's advances, Anna kills him, but Margery, hoping to protect Anna's child, takes the blame and then escapes to the West, after which she gets married and begins a new life. Following a lengthy search, the police manage to track her down, but Margery still refuses to save herself by telling the truth about the murder, even though Anna and her child died several years before in a car crash. Finally, however, because he still loves her and because he has been stricken by a deadly disease that will kill him in a few months, James confesses to the murder, thereby freeing Margery to return to her husband.
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Cast
Florence La Badie
Margery Carew
Ethyle Cooke
Anna Prentice
J.H. Gilmour
Robert Vaughn
Dorothy Benham
George Marlo
James Gray
Hector Dion
William Cleves, a villain
Samuel N. Niblack
Joseph Phillips
