The Dolls of Intrigue (1915)
A band of foreign secret agents send two of their number, a girl and a man, to secure the plans of the Rolling Repeating Coast Defense Gun, which one of their number has located in America. The penalty for not accomplishing their purpose is death. Landed in America, they learn that the plans are in the possession of Lieut. Thomas Sheldon, and Simms, his aide. They proceed to encompass their ends by making the acquaintance of Simms, who is young and impressionable and spends much time in the girl's society. They play cards, and he loses vast sums to the girl's companion Simms gives his I.O.U., but cannot meet it, and is threatened with disgrace unless he pays or surrenders the Coast Defense Gun plans. Lieut. Sheldon, on a slumming tour, becomes interested in a pretty child to whom he promises a doll. Simms agrees to surrender the plans, and Simms becomes enamored of the girl, and that night, at a given signal, passes them out of his window in the body of a doll. The secret agent is robbed of the package containing the doll by a professional pickpocket, who takes it for examination to the alley where Sheldon's little "doll girl" plays. As soon as he sees it is a doll, he discards it, and it is later picked up by the child. The secret agent and his girl assistant, realizing their loss, and what it means to them, and seeing Sheldon hurrying along with a doll for his young friend, immediately connect him with the frustration of their plans. They ask Sheldon for the doll, and their importunities arouse in him a deep feeling of suspicion. Upon his refusal, they give him until that night at eight o'clock to deliver the doll, under penalty of death for disobedience. Sheldon's sweetheart, on a social welfare tour, discovers the doll containing the government plans, and takes them to the Lieutenant. He immediately sees the whole intrigue and prepares to round up the foreign agents that night. In his scoop he catches his assistant, Simms, who is disgraced for life. The two secret agents are deported, and know well the fate that awaits their unsuccess. Lieutenant Sheldon and his sweetheart keep the broken doll as a memento, and a hope.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| E.D. Horkheimer | Producer |
| H.M. Horkheimer | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Henry King |
