Executive Clemency (1911)
Honest mechanic Dan Fuller is the victim of circumstances. He is ill one day and the rent collector, an unprincipled masher with insinuating manners, calls and grossly insults his wife, attacking her in a familiar manner. Dan is aroused and rushing into the room administers a beating to the rascal which results in a serious injury. Fuller is arrested and, having no friends, is convicted on a charge of felonious assault, the mitigating circumstances not being considered. He is serving a sentence in the penitentiary when he receives a letter informing him he is the father of a child. Obsessed by the injustice of his incarceration and insane with a desire to see his wife and child, he eludes the guards and makes his escape from prison, exchanging garments with a scarecrow. He visits his home to find his aged mother at the bedside of the young wife. Without awakening his wife he kisses her and the baby and returns to prison and voluntarily gives himself up. The facts connected with his conviction have reached the governor, who has decided to pardon him on Thanksgiving Day. When it is reported he has escaped the official reconsiders his intention and Fuller is destined to serve his full sentence. The governor's daughter reads in a newspaper that Fuller escaped to visit his wife and baby and then returned to prison of his own volition and the incident touches her heart. She implores her father to be merciful and he relents. Fuller is released from prison on Thanksgiving Day. He returns home to find a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner provided by the daughter of the governor and the corned beef and cabbage his mother has prepared for the occasion is laid aside. The coming of the husband is unexpected by the wife and there is a happy reunion witnessed by the daughter of the chief executive, who looks on approvingly.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Carl Laemmle | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| King Baggot | |
| Isabel Rea | |
| Ethel Grandin | |
| Mrs. Herbert Brenon |
