Beneath the Sea (1915)
Ned Ellis, draftsman in the employ of the Submarine Construction Company, is in love and loved by Alice Herring, the daughter of the president. Her father desires that she marry Richard Mason, secretary of the company. Ned has invented an underwater exhaust for submarine engines which the company is considering installing in new submarines for the government. Mason is jealous of Ned and not only tries to keep the invention from being adopted, but contrives for its failure when demonstrated. Mason exacts from Mr. Herring the promise of Alice's hand in marriage, but Alice scorns the idea. She is forced finally to acknowledge an engagement, but will not consider it binding. Mason decides to crush his rival and, taking advantage of ill feeling aroused in Dan Harris by a reprimand from Ned, Mason discharges Harris, laying the blame for the act on Ned. Harris drinks to excess, mistreats his wife and fails to support her and their baby. Alice comes in touch with Nora, Harris' wife, and being drawn to her by sympathy and her own trouble, they become friends. Mason gets Harris to tamper with the machinery of the new invention so that when it is tried it will fail to work properly. Ned goes with the submarine when it makes the trial trip. When they sink to the bottom the engine fails to work, and he discovers that the air is out of the tanks and that it is impossible for them to rise to the surface. No help can reach them and as the air in the submarine will last but a few moments, Ned insists on their shooting him up through the torpedo tube. This is done and Ned reaches the Lucero, the president's yacht, in time to secure aid and face Mason, who has been the cause of all his trouble. As a result of the failure of the engine to demonstrate properly, the invention is rejected and Ned is about to be discharged. Harris, after being the tool of Mason, goes on a spree. His child becomes desperately sick and its life is saved by the timely arrival of a physician who has been called by Alice. When Harris returns from his spree and learns that his baby almost died, he is filled with remorse and resolves never to touch drink again. He discovers Alice crying and on asking the cause is again filled with remorse for the trouble he has caused her. He immediately goes to the company and explains what he has done and tells them it was at the instigation of Mason. Mason is denounced and Ned is reinstated in his place in the company and Mr. Herring readily gives his consent for the marriage of his daughter to Ned.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Wilbert Melville | Director |
| Wilbert Melville | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Parsons | |
| Velma Whitman | |
| George Routh | |
| Charles Fowler |
