For the Honor of Bettina (1915)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1915-04-25
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: None | English
Stars: Teddy Sampson , Lloyd Ingraham , Frank Bennett , Margery Wilson , O.V. MacDiarmid
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: For the Honor of Bettina , For the Honor of Bettina (United States of America)
Plot: Old Giuseppi makes plaster statues and his little granddaughter, Bettina, sells them. Above in the tenement lives Antonio, who plays his violin in a cheap café. Across the hall lives an Italian girl of another type, Marina. Antonio loves Bettina but has never spoken to her. The girl across the hall tends a flower stand and so meets many men. One night she makes an engagement with one and he asks her to bring a friend. She lends Bettina some clothes and coaxes her to go with her. They are taken to the café where Tony plays. Tony is more hurt than jealous, and after the supper when the men take them in an auto to a road house, he waits up in the tenement until the girl returns and reproaches Marina. Bettina resents Tony's interference and there arises a coolness between them. The next day Tony goes to the café with his friend, Talio, an Italian plain-clothes man. To his horror Bettina and her companion of the previous evening enter and are shown to a private room. Tony is resolved to protect her at any cost. He listens at the door and during the waiter's absence Bettina's escort is forcing Bettina to receive his attentions. He forces the door; there is a fight between the two men and the escort is killed. Tony's friend, the detective, rushes in and saves his friend by arranging the evidence to show that the man was a suicide. Bettina and Tony are reconciled and the little Italian girl is satisfied to remain in her own station, and we are led to believe that Tony will eventually be the lifelong custodian of the honor of Bettina.
IMDB:tt0451345