Saving the Family Name (1916)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama
Release: 1916-09-11
Director: Phillips Smalley , Lois Weber
Writers: Lois Weber
Language: None | English
Stars: Mary MacLaren , Gerard Alexander , Carl von Schiller , Jack Holt , Phillips Smalley , Harry Depp , Gail Hawksworth
Runtime: 50 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Saving the Family Name (United States of America) , Saving the Family Name , Familiens Ære (Denmark)
Plot: Wally Dreislin commits suicide because his family disapproved of his romance with chorus girl Estelle Ryan, the newspapers, delighting in all the details of the affair, turn Estelle into a national celebrity. Fame only increases her power to attract men, and she soon is involved in a romance with Jansen Winthrop, another young man from a wealthy family. Jansen's alarmed mother then begs Robert, her other son, to end the relationship. Obediently, Robert kidnaps Estelle and takes her to a remote hunting lodge with plans to keep her there until she agrees to leave Jansen. After several weeks, however, Robert realizes that Estelle's reputation as a vamp has been completely engineered by the press. As a result, Robert sends for Jansen to retrieve his sweetheart, but when he arrives, Estelle announces that she has fallen in love with her abductor, and then begins a romance with him.
IMDB:tt0007299