A Story of Crime (1914)
Mr. and Mrs. Dorner were in that epoch of their newly-married bliss which in any other disease would be termed the last stages. They hung around each other's necks and cooed at each other. Hence, when one day Mr. Dorner threatened, with playful ferocity, to beat his doting wife if she didn't behave herself, anyone except a peculiarly dense servant would realize that the ferocity was only another manifestation of Mr. Dorner's deep and abiding devotion. Since she was a peculiarly dense servant. Mary Ann casually informed her friend, the domestic next door, that Mr. Dorner had threatened to beat his wife. From the maid next door the news spread quickly to her employers, the Jones, and from them to the Smiths. Thence, with astonishing rapidity, it flew to the Browns. Robinsons, Schultzes and Murphys. Every time the tale was told it gained in strength and color. Imperceptibly the shadows closed about the Dorner household, imperceptibly the character of Dorner grew blacker and blacker. From a mere vulgar wife beater, Dorner's reputation climbed to somber criminal heights and at last, when the story reached the Murphys and they learned that the terrible Dorner had brutally murdered his saintly wife, there seemed nothing for them to do except summon the police. When the police arrived, they found the Dorner's engaged in their usual occupation of telling each other how nice they were.
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GenresCrime
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| C.J. Williams | Director |
| Mark Swan | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Arthur Housman | |
| Elsie MacLeod | |
| Alice Washburn | |
| Alice Owen |
