The Derelict

Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could never marry a man who was a drunkard. Morgan, secretly in love with Louise, gets Leo intoxicated and sends him to her home. Louise breaks off the engagement and Bruce pursues her. Undecided, she slips into a dream where she is mired in a life of misery with Morgan, who has become a worse drunkard than Holmes as well as selfish and brutal. In trying to defend herself from Bruce she kills him with a pair of shears. Holmes, a poor derelict, hears her scream, rushes to her rescue. Louise awakens and sends for Leo.

• Release date
• March 3, 1915
• Runtime
• 11 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Henry Otto

Cast

Edward Coxen Leo Holmes Winifred Greenwood Louise Wilke John Steppling P.G. Wilke, Esq. George Field Bruce Morgan William Bertram Dr. Lane