Sweedie learns to swim. What a change of clothes did. Dreamy dud. Mystery of the double cross. Episode 9 When jail birds fly. Mutual weekly. Photoplay.
Notes:
Devils island: Pauline Frederick, Richard Tucker, William Dunn, Leo White, John Miljan, George Lewis, Harry Northrup, Marion Nixon. Sweedie learns to swim: Wallace Beery, Leo White, Betty Brown, Ben Turpin. Mystery of the double cross: Mollie King, Leon Bary. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1926. Special features: The short comedy film "Sweedie learns to swim" (1914, approximately 13 min.) / Essany. The short film "What a change of clothes did" (1913, 11 min.). The cartoon "Dreamy dud" (1915, 7 min.) / by Wallace Carlson; Essanay Film Mfg. Co. The movie serial "Mystery of the double cross: episode 9, When jail birds fly" (1917, 24 min.) / Pathe presents; from a story written by Gilson Willets; produced by Astra Film Corp., directed by Wm. Parke; scenario by B. Millhauser. The newsreel feature "The Mutual Weekly, number 109" (1917, 13 min.) / Mutual Pictures; produced by Gaumont. Images from glass advertising slides (early form of trailers). Short film "Bathing beauties" (1 min.). Trailer for the film "Forbidden hours". Photoplay Magazine covers gallelry. And commentary by Rich Olivieri.
Summary:
A man who is sentenced to life in prison on Devil's Island is joined, after seven years, by his devoted girl friend. After getting married they have a son who eventully grows up to be a surgeon, but by then the father is dead. Later, the son falls in love with a young female convict, but after he performs a special surgery on a deranged man he and his mother are pardoned and return to France. Meanwhile, an unscrupulous warden tries to take the young woman left behind for himself, but the efforts by the surgeon and his mother to free her pay off just in time.
Series:
Sunrise silents presentations ; v. 2, no. 9
OCLC:
(OCoLC)173947379
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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