A Romance of the Navy (1915)
Phyllis Gardner's platonic friendship with her old countryman and childhood friend Emanuel incurs her husband's suspicion and jealousy. Phyllis extends friendship to her old friend because of his, and sometimes her, loneliness. Gardner forbids her ever entering his house again and later secures a separation and the custody of their baby son Jack. When Gardner's widowed sister dies, he adopts her son Reggie, and suspicious of the parentage of Jack and desirous of wreaking revenge on Phyllis, he tells the world that Reggie is his own son. The boys are brought up in ignorance of their true relation, and years later Jack believes that he is the adopted son and Reggie is the biological son. Both boys want to go to Annapolis, and Gardner gets Reggie the appointment. Jack, deeply hurt and realizing that Rose, the girl they both love, now shows a preference for the luckier one, vows to get into the Navy and work his way up to being Reggie's equal. Reggie goes through Annapolis and Jack works his way up from common sailor to warrant officer, and later to ensign. Rose marries Reggie. Reggie begins to show his real nature and earns the dislike of his friends and brother officers by his drinking and gambling. Meanwhile, Phyllis has nursed thoughts of vengeance through the years and finally manages to ruin her husband: She goes to him and tells him that his ruin can be laid at her door and he in retaliation introduces Reggie, the drinking scapegrace, to her as her son. Phyllis accepts him with a bitter heart. Reggie learns that his father is ruined and cannot assist him to pay his debts. Disgrace and dishonor stare him in the face. In a drunken quarrel Gardner tells Reggie he is not his son and in the struggle that follows succumbs to heart failure. Rose has overheard and awaits the opportune moment to compel Reggie to make amends to Jack. Returning to his ship that night Reggie has a quarrel with Jack and strikes him. This and his past actions bring upon him the wrath of his superiors and he is dismissed from the service. Emanuel, Herzog, and other foreigners are plotting to assist their government, which is on the verge of a war with the United States. They seize upon Reggie and ultimately gain his consent to co-operate with them. Jack is to carry important government papers and by working upon Phyllis' sympathy for her supposed son he manages to get her to help him steal the papers from Jack. She does so, thinking she is helping her son out of his disgrace. After Reggie has set several mines in the harbor he gets away in a motorboat with the papers. Rose, failing to find Reggie, tells Jack of his parentage and is overheard by Phyllis. Realizing that she is in reality bringing a terrible catastrophe upon the head of her real son she tells Jack that he's in a terrible predicament. Jack starts after Reggie in another motorboat. Phyllis, remembering the switch and mined harbor, rushes to undo Reggie's crime. She throws all the switches in time but one. That one runs to a mine just beneath Reggie. The mine explodes and Reggie is killed. Jack gets back his papers and is reunited with his mother, happy in the thought that later Rose will consent to be his wife.
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GenresAdventure
Romance
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| George Terwilliger | Director |
| George Terwilliger | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Ormi Hawley | |
| Edgar Jones | |
| Earl Metcalfe | |
| Herbert Fortier |
