The First Endorsement (1914)
An adjutant comes in and lays before Colonel Allen, the charges against John Wild, a young soldier accused of theft. When the adjutant goes out, the Colonel remembers about his own wayward son, how he had left his home one evening, after a quarrel, never to return, shipping as a stoker on a big liner, and how, later, he had received word of his death in a shipwreck. As the Colonel is dreaming he is aroused by the entrance of the prisoner, "John Wild." He recognizes him as his son. Quickly getting rid of the sentinels, the Colonel questions his son. He learns that the charges of his being a thief are true, that he has gone from bad to worse, having drifted into gambling and fighting and that he was in a terrible sea disaster, but managed to save himself. The son tells his father that he enlisted under the name of John Wild and shipped on the transport to the island, and that after his father was placed in command of his regiment he tried to keep from meeting him. As the son is trying to prevent his father from signing the charges which will condemn him, his sister, Leila, riding up to the window gaily, calls her father, and then dismounting, runs in to make him come out and join her. The son, dreading the meeting with his innocent sister from which the better part of his nature makes him recoil, he dashes from the office, and is shot by the sentinels. He dies as "John Wild," and leaves the Colonel's name unsullied.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Harry Lambart | Director |
| Leila Burton Wells | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Charles Kent | |
| James Morrison | |
| Dorothy Kelly | |
| Donald Hall |
