Neptune’s Daughter (1912)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Short
Release: 1912-09-17
Director: Theodore Wharton
Writers: Christy Cabanne , Friedrich de La Motte
Language: None | English
Stars: Francis X. Bushman , Martha Russell , Ruth Stonehouse , Harry Cashman , William Walters , Harry Mainhall , Helen Dunbar , Bryant Washburn , Mrs. Theodore Wharton , Fred Wulf
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Neptune's Daughter , Neptune's Daughter (United States of America)
Plot: While walking along the rocky seashore with his sweetheart, Charles Fleming, an artist, hears a weird, strange musical sound coming from the water below and pauses to listen. His sweetheart's scarf now blows away and he clambers down to get it. Frightened by his approach Undine, a beautiful mermaid, who has been sunning herself on the rocks, slips out of sight into the waves, but not before Fleming catches sight of her and follows her course through the water with astonishment and admiration. Determined to meet her he returns the next morning and finds her on the rocks. Wooing her with all the fire of his passionate soul he secures her promise to assume a mortal form and wed him. Father Neptune is now summoned from the deep, but warns Undine that if she assumes mortal form she can return to her old life no more. At dawn the artist returns and finds her waiting for him as a beautiful girl. After the marriage the honeymoon in the cottage by the sea begins, but the artist soon tires of her eccentricities and longs for his old sweetheart. One morning, in a fit of passion, he leaves her. Brokenhearted, Undine calls on Father Neptune to take her back into the bosom of the deep. Next morning the artist, regretting his desertion of the beautiful mermaid, is hastening along the shore when he comes upon her dead body cast up by the waves of which she is no longer a part. In a wild burst of grief he sinks down beside her, then slowly the scene fades and Fleming sits up a start as he realizes it has all been a dream.
IMDB:tt0002388