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Love’s Enduring Flame
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Walter V. Coyle
Cast: Charles Perley [Philip Carter], Claire McDowell [Elice Carter], Zoe Bech (Zoe Rae) [Robert, the carter child], José Ruben [Harvey Beck], Alan Hale [Robert Carter, the grown son], Viola Smith (Vola Vale) [Edith Hollis], Laura La Varnie [the modiste], Charles Bennett, William J. Butler
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 23 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Absorbed in his business affairs, Philip Carter seems to neglect his wife Elice, and Harvey Beck takes advantage of his dereliction to woo her. She repulses him as a good wife should and goes to her husband, but Philip, engrossed in a discussion with his lawyer, waves her away. Mortified, she decides to throw in her lot with Beck, taking her child. But Beck wants her unencumbered, and while they are discussing it, Carter arrives, takes the child from Elice, and bids her go. At the station, while waiting for the train, Elice sees an outcast shivering in the cold, and gives the girl her coat. The train is wrecked, and Beck is killed. The outcast, wearing Elice’s coat, is identified as Mrs. Carter, and Philip, stunned by the tragedy, leaves his native place and establishes quarters in New York. Elice secures employment in a fashionable modiste’s shop, and is eventually taken into partnership. Her son Robert, grown to manhood, is engaged to Edith Hollis, daughter of a Wall Street operator. Edith and Robert visit the modiste’s, and Elice beholds her son. The modiste, dying, bequeaths the business to Elice. Carter leads a bull movement on the exchange. Informed that Carter is fighting him, Hollis gives battle, and Carter has his back to the wall. Hollis forces Edith to break her engagement with his enemy’s son. Elice, a witness to the scene, goes with the girl and Robert to Carter’s home, and enters his private room just as he is about, to commit suicide. At sight of his wife’s ghost Carter lets fall the pistol. A moment later Robert and Edith enter. While the boy is learning that Elice is his mother, Carter’s lawyer arrives with the news that ruin is averted, Elice having secretly pledged her fortune to his support.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 14 December 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.
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