The Derelict (1915)
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.
- Date of release
- 1915-03-03
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 11m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Henry Otto
Casting
- Edward Coxen — Leo Holmes
- Winifred Greenwood — Louise Wilke
- John Steppling — P.G. Wilke, Esq.
- George Field — Bruce Morgan
- William Bertram — Dr. Lane
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