The Dread Inheritance (1913)

电影

国家/地区: 美国
类型: 剧情, 短片
上映日期: 1913-12-08
导演: J. Farrell MacDonald (1875–1952)
编剧: N/A
语言: None | English
演员: J. Warren Kerrigan , Jessalyn Van Trump , George Periolat , Edith Bostwick , William Worthington , J. Farrell MacDonald (1875–1952)
片长: 21 分钟
奖项: N/A
又名: The Dread Inheritance (美国) , The Dread Inheritance
剧情简介: The father is dying in his western cabin. There is something on his mind. He calls his son to him and tells him how, as a young man and a weak one, he was led into mischief in a dance hall; how his wife suffered the consequences and how his son might possibly suffer, too, through heredity. The father dies and the son is horrified, and with white face and dead heart he goes to the girl who is waiting for him and who trusts him so much and tells her that he is not fit for her, She tries to retain him, but he breaks away from her and the poor girl goes and pours out her sorrow to her mother, who tries to fathom the reason why. There is a doctor who loves the girl and when he tells her lover to call on the doctor and see what he can do for him, he goes. The doctor learns the cause of his trouble and makes a test of his blood. It is pure and wholesome, but the doctor sees his chance and by dint of suggestion he lets the poor fellow go from his presence. The mother cannot stand her daughter's grief and seeks out the lover, who has just come out of a dancing saloon, where he sought to drown his troubles and from where he fled when a woman tried to tempt him. The mother of the girl speaks gently to him and as gently points out a passage in the Bible to him, "And Jesus put forth his hand and touched him, saying, 'I will. Be thou clean.' immediately his leprosy was cleansed." The young fellow thinks it over and he reads further and the light comes and he knows he has nothing to fear. The lover again visits the doctor, who does all in his power to make him see that he should not go near the girl. But the girl and her mother are praying in their home and the influence is felt. Finally the young man throws down the test tube and laughingly goes to seek his girl. He finds her and her mother on their knees and clasps them both to him.
IMDB:tt0333363