The Girl Who Might Have Been (1915)
Firm in his belief in the existence of a Master Criminal, Detective Cheney announces his determination to run the scoundrel to earth. Liggett, the master criminal, publicly known as an eminently respectable gentleman of means, learns of Cheney's promise to "get him." Exerting his almost uncanny power upon Enid, his unwilling accomplice, he gives her an automatic with a silencer attached, and sends her to the detective's office to assassinate him. In an almost miraculous manner Cheney discovers the purpose of her visit and coolly frustrates it. Realizing the girl is not acting of her own volition, he gently draws from her the story of how, through no fault of her own, she has been forced to do Liggett's bidding. She refuses, however, to divulge the criminal's name. "Three- Fingered Lew," Liggett's right-hand man, learns Enid is about to "squeal" and also that she has fallen in love with the detective. At his master's order, "Three-Fingered Lew" gains admittance to Enid's home, and when Cheney, an hour later, arrives, he finds her dead with peculiar finger marks on her throat. The detective is almost crazed by grief, for that very evening he was about to ask her to marry him. Forcing himself to action, he notifies the police, and feeling positive from the fingerprints that it is the work of "Three-Fingered Lew," he secures the crook's photograph from the Rogues' Gallery, locates his man and arrests him. Lew supplies an alibi, through Liggett, and is released, but Cheney re-arrests him. With the aid of a famous hypnotist and the Third Degree, he gains a confession from Lew, incidentally implicating Liggett. The detective goes to Liggett's home, and after some thrilling adventures in that house of mystery, Liggett is killed by a fall from the roof. But there ever remains with the detective a vision of "The girl who might have been" his wife.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Lionel Belmore | Writer |
| Charles Brown | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Harry T. Morey | |
| Betty Gray | |
| Ned Finley | |
| Edward Elkas |
