Memories That Haunt (1914)
Deeply absorbed in his work, author James Moran, though affectionate and considerate, will not allow his beautiful wife Isobel to interfere with his work hours. Loving life and pleasure, she cannot understand him. Moran goes to another city to confer with his publishers, and while he is away, Isobel executes a long-contemplated plan: She writes to her husband that though she admires him, she loves life, pleasure, and sunshine, and she is going home. When Moran receives this letter, he hastens home and with face white and tense with despair, enters the house, which he finds deserted. Unable to stand the loneliness of the place, he sails for a foreign country. Out at sea, the steamer is wrecked and hundreds lose their lives. Moran helps the women and children into the lifeboats and just as the steamer is going down, jumps into the sea and gains a piece of wreckage to which he clings. Washed ashore on a lighthouse isle, Moran finds new friends in the lighthouse keeper and his wife and their little grandchild. He feels keenly his failure to have made has wife happy, and tortured by memories, he writes his great work, in solitude, called "The Memories That Haunt." The work is published as the work of an unknown author and scores a tremendous success. It is commented on as very like the work of Moran, though deeper. Isobel, reading it, feels that only her husband could have written the book, then laughs at the idea, and finally, drawn by the memories that haunt, visits the lighthouse island. Here, posing as a tourist, she induces the keeper and his wife to let her see the writer's room. She can find no clue to the writer's identity. Moran returns to his friends on the island and is told in jest that, "There is one of them tourists up there now." Amused, he goes up to take a peek at her--and comes face-to-face with his wife. Complete understanding and reconciliation follow.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Harry Lambart | Director |
| James Oliver Curwood | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Earle Williams | |
| Rose Tapley | |
| George Stevens | |
| Mary Maurice |
