The Evil of Suspicion (1915)
Rudolph Wilder, a widower with a grown daughter, Lillian, has just remarried. He is an intensely jealous man and becomes suspicious of his wife, imagining that she bestows her affections elsewhere. Before her marriage, his wife was a widow with a grown son, but fearing her husband's anger, she keeps putting off telling her intended about her son, and finally marries without ever mentioning him. She now writes a letter to her son and her husband sees her as she goes to post it. He becomes very angry and thinks his suspicions are justified. A short time later the family returns from an outing and a telegram is waiting for the new Mrs. Wilder; reading it, she becomes very agitated. Lillian realizes that something is wrong between her father and his new wife and starts watching her stepmother to help matters. The telegram was from Mrs. Wilder's son, telling her that he is on his way to visit her, and instead of telling her husband the whole truth, she again hesitates, fearing his anger. She meets the young man in the grounds instead of bringing him into the house, and Lillian sees them. Wilder happens to witness the meeting too, and tries to sneak up on them with a pistol. Lillian sees his action and, realizing the tragedy in the air, grabs the cloak from her stepmother and, hastily pushing her aside into the shrubbery, takes her place before the man. When Wilder confronts them he finds his daughter in the man's arms, and while greatly surprised, as he expected to find his wife, tries to make light of the pistol in his hand. The girl briefly tells her father that this is her sweetheart, but after he leaves, the fellow's mother tries to thank her, and she turns on her in a fury. The mother then explains that the lad is her son and tells the reason why she has never told Lillian's father of him. And the secret was kept until a short time later, when Lillian speaks to her father of getting married, and tells him that the young man's family will prove satisfactory to him, as he had married the lad's mother. The affair ends happily for all concerned, and the wife resolves never again to keep secrets from her husband.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Rupert Julian | Director |
| Rupert Julian | Writer |
| Carl Laemmle | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Rupert Julian | |
| Elsie Jane Wilson | |
| Rena Rogers | |
| Hallam Cooley |
