The Ordeal (1922)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: N/A
Release: 1922-05-21
Director: Paul Powell
Writers: Beulah Marie Dix , W. Somerset Maugham
Language: None | English
Stars: Agnes Ayres , Conrad Nagel , Clarence Burton , Edna Murphy , Anne Schaefer , Gino Corrado , Adele Farrington , Edward Martindel , Shannon Day , Claire Du Brey
Runtime: 50 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Ordeal (United States of America) , The Ordeal , Le geste homicide (France, French Republic)
Plot: Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil's attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies. She inherits her husband's fortune, which she retains on the condition that she does not remarry, and has Helen cured by an operation. Although Sybil and Acton fall in love, he refuses to commit himself without a legal marriage. Meanwhile, Helen, who has drifted into a dissolute life, is abducted and is about to be forced into a marriage when she is rescued from a fire by Sybil and Acton. Minnie, a family nurse, confesses in her dying moments that she poisoned Bruce. Realizing that her money has yielded more grief than happiness, Sybil consents to give up the fortune and marry Acton.
IMDB:tt0013466