When Honor Wakes (1915)
A well-dressed young man occupying a room in a cheap hotel carefully destroys all clews to his identity and prepares to take poison. Attracted by a strong smell of gas he hesitates and then investigates. In the adjoining room he finds a young woman lying unconscious on the bed, the room full of gas. He carries her to his room, revives her and from her lips hears the story of a poor department store clerk tempted by the finery about her until she became a thief and preferred suicide to disgrace. Her story finished, the girl discovers that her rescuer had visited the hotel for a purpose identical with hers. He tells her the story of an army lieutenant who, befuddled with drink, cheated in a game of cards and was forced to resign to avoid exposure. The city is San Francisco and just as the second confession is finished, the earthquake occurs. Prepared a few moments before to meet death, the man and the girl, when confronted by a great danger, respond automatically to the instinct of preservation. They manage to escape from the building, which has caught fire, and make their way with other refugees to a public park. There the lieutenant's military training stands him in good stead. He organizes the men in the crowd and begins to bring order out of chaos. Meanwhile Major Blake, Waring's superior officer, and the man who forced his resignation, has left his barracks and set out for a downtown hotel where his wife, pending alterations of their quarters at the military reservation, has been temporarily living. Mrs. Blake, overcome by fright and smoke, is helpless in her room, but her maid escapes to give the alarm. She meets Waring and a party of his refugees and leads them to the burning hotel, where Waring enters and rescues the woman. Major Blake arrives at the hotel just in time to see Waring stagger out with Mrs. Blake and fall insensible. Waring is borne, unconscious, to the hospital tent erected in the park, where Ann and a physician are in charge. The doctor surmises that something graver than his injuries is the trouble with Waring. Ann knows what it is and intercedes with Major Blake to give the young lieutenant another chance. Major Blake consents, and two people are thereby made happy.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Barry O'Neil | Director |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Lee Shumway | |
| Velma Whitman | |
| William Parsons | |
| George Routh |
