‘Edith’, (Fannie Ward) is the extravagent, frivolous, and irresponsible wife of a stock broker, (Jack Dean, Fannie’s real-life husband). She is, for some crazy reason, made Treasurer of a Red Cross Charity Fund.
‘Hishituru Tori’ ( ‘ Haka Arakau’ in the 1918 re-release) is played by the handsome and wonderful actor, Sessue Hayakawa, who takes advantage when Edith gambles on a speculative tip from another stock broker and loses all the Red Cross money, $10,000 in the deal!
Offering her the money in exchange for ‘favours’, Edith is given a cheque to cover her losses. Despondent, yet relieved to have covered the fund money she heads back home. When she gets home, her husband tells her they are rich since a big business investment he had been nursing has finally paid off. Edith is relieved and realizing she can now pay back Tori without having to live up to their deal, she gets a cheque from her husband right away, but doesn’t tell him what the $10,000 is for (nice guy, or what?!) and goes back and offers Tori the money to cover her debt.
Tori refuses to be ‘bought off’ and attacks Edith, as she struggles and tries to flee, he puts his mark on her with a brand, just like all the other beautiful things he owns.
Falling to the floor Edith grabs the gun Tori had been taunting her to use earlier. She shoots him and flees. Her husband arrives, suspicious as to why she needed so much money he has followed her and comes across Tori as he slides to the floor bleeding from a bullet wound….
You’ll have to watch the film to see what happens next…
(I think this is in my top 5 favourite silent films of all times. I like to point people to it who think silent films are all shallow comedies and goody two-shoes plots; some are, but that’s just ‘cheat’ing the silent film genre out of some great, serious, heavy duty, plotlines ).
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