When the Dead Return

When the Dead Return — Plot

acques and Antoine are both in love with the same girl, but Jacques proves the winner and marries Marcele. Three years after the wedding an accident deprives Jacques of his memory. Not knowing where or who he is, he wanders far from home and takes up a new life, all memory of the old having forsaken him. Years later, Marcele, convinced that Jacques is dead, marries Antoine. After ten years of happiness with Antoine, Marcele dies, leaving a little daughter. About this time, through an accident, Jacques' memory is restored and he arrives back at his old home just as his daughter is about to marry. Not realizing the lapse of years he attempts to stop the wedding, believing that his daughter is his wife Marcele. Explanations take place and Jacques is taken to the grave of his sweetheart and wife Marcele.

• Release date
• May 5, 1911
• Runtime
• 15 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Sidney Olcott

When the Dead Return — Cast

Gene Gauntier Marcele J.P. McGowan Jacques J.J. Clark Antoine