The Greater Power (1915)
A young medical man who has made a specialty of aphasia cases breaks down from overwork. He is ordered on a vacation which he takes in a small fishing village, where the malady he has treated in others overtakes him. He is rescued from a perilous position by the daughter of the light-house keeper. She and her father take the unconscious man to the shelter of the light house. Here he recovers his physical attributes but his mind has become a blank. Around the light-house keeper and his daughter, there is woven a story of a little girl supposedly drowned, but in effect living with the chief of a band of gypsies. This man has broken away from the tribe, and has offices in the doctor's home city, where he practices the art of fortune telling. The light-house keeper's daughter, under the name of Zara, believes that the gypsy is her father and she has studied under him the mystic arts and really possesses hypnotic power. The doctor and the girl of the light house become engaged, but the course of their true love is interrupted by the recovery of the doctor's memory. He returns to his old life, oblivious of his experiences at the light house and back in his home town he meets the twin sister of the light-house keeper's daughter, and they fall in love with each other, but Zara, jealous of her lover's past, places him in a hypnotic condition and under this influence, he tells her the story of the light house. An old gypsy crone, one Ogar, quarrels with the professor and betrays the identity of Zara. The doctor's heart goes out to the girl he left behind him as does the heart of Zara for the father left in the lonely light house. The two young lovers sail into the sea of summer and the lost child is last seen clasped in the arms of the rejoicing father.
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