The Mills of the Gods (1912)

movie

(24)

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1912-11-04
Director: Ralph Ince
Writers: George P. Dillenback
Language: None | English
Stars: L. Rogers Lytton , Leo Delaney , Rosemary Theby , Zena Keefe , George Cooper , Tefft Johnson , Adele DeGarde , Harry Northrup , Evelyn Dumo , Mae Costello
Runtime: 39 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Door het ongeluk achtervolgd (Netherlands the) , The Mills of the Gods , The Mills of the Gods (United States of America)
Plot: When Rosemary Thebey turns down wealthy L. Rogers Lytton's sordid advances, he has her fired from her job, then follows her. Fortunately, she seeks refuge with Leo Delaney, and soon they are married. Lytton, however, pursues his melodramatic vengeance by getting Delaney fired from every job, until Miss Thebey's sister, Zena Keefe, decides to wreak her own vengeance on her family's oppressor.This movie, set in Italy, takes fine advantage of a number of melodramatic tropes. Ralph Ince directs it rather large, but it is a well edited three reels, including some cross-cutting for ironic commentary.Doubtless part of the impulse to make this movie was the success of George Dillenback's novel. Another was the sizable number of Italian immigrants who made up a sizable portion of the motion picture audience. I suspect this had an influence on Ince's brother Thomas to produce a more sympathetic early feature, THE ITALIAN.
IMDB:tt0368030