The Woman in the Box (1915)
Milton Asheton of the U.S. Secret Service is sent to Mexico to discover if that country is really leasing an island in the Pacific to a foreign country, whose attitude is belligerent towards the United States. In Mexico City he attends the opera and becomes greatly attracted towards a beautiful woman seated in the box opposite. The attraction proves mutual and he takes her to supper, after which she leaves him abruptly and returns home alone. The following evening he attends a ball at the Mexican Secretary of War's house, and the hostess proves to be the lady whom he met at the opera. She is an American-born woman, and having found among her husband's papers the document relating to the leasing of the island and proving he is a traitor, she shows Milton a copy of it. Her husband's brutality towards her has become unbearable and she determines to thwart his traitorous plan against the land of her birth They are seen talking together by the husband, who insults Milton and is knocked down. They arrange a duel and the husband is assassinated by a rival political faction a few hours later, and after securing the tell-tale document and delivering it to Washington, Milton returns to Mexico City and woos and wins the late Secretary's widow for his wife.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Harry Davenport | Director |
| Edward William Fowler | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Harry T. Morey | |
| Peggy Blake | |
| L. Rogers Lytton | |
| George Cooper |
