Behind the Mask

Behind the Mask — Plot

Financier Mark Harrold is responsible for the financial ruin and subsequent suicide of Stanton. Following his death, Stanton's daughter Margaret, seeking revenge, goes to work for Harrold's beloved daughter Helen. The latter plans to marry the dashing Lord Strathmore and thus attain her social ambitions, but Margaret, to avenge her father's death, wins Strathmore away from her by deception. After their marriage, Margaret leaves Strathmore, claiming that she never loved him. With the birth of their child, Margaret becomes ill and blind, but Strathmore finds her and gives her money under an assumed identity. Following an operation that restores her sight, Margaret recognizes her husband as her benefactor and realizes that she loves him.

• Release date
• September 3, 1917
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Alice Guy-Blaché

Behind the Mask — Cast

Catherine Calvert Margaret Stanton Richard Tucker Lord Strathmore Charles Halton Larrabee

K

Kirke Brown Mark Harrold

C

Charles Dungan Stanton

F

Flora Nason Helen Harrold