The Nihilists (1914)
Thomas Madison, prosecuting attorney, has been warned several times that the city was infested with a desperate gang of Russians who teach Nihilism. He determines to crush this spirit. The daily paper publishes this fact. He becomes a marked man for the bomb throwers as the result. His brother, Frederick, a young architect, while superintending the construction of a large building, breaks his arm and is taken to a doctor for treatment. This physician is a prominent Nihilist. Later the gang decide who will carry out the decision of their council. The lot falls to Zene, the stepdaughter of Dr. Petrosky. When the day is close at hand. Alexoff, one of the band, takes her to the courthouse to point out their victim. As the attorney comes down the steps, she is nearly overcome because of his striking resemblance to the young architect, whom she has learned to love. Zene meets her lover soon after, and from him learns that the prosecuting attorney is his brother. On the day set for the killing of the attorney Zene breaks with the gang and goes to Thomas Madison and warns him. With detectives they hasten to her home to arrest her stepfather. In the meantime Dr. Petrosky has finished the infernal machine, and is explaining it to Nickolas Alexoff. Accidentally, he turns over a vial containing some of the poisonous fluid. The fumes asphyxiate both the physician and Alexoff. On the arrival of Zene and the attorney they find the stepfather and Alexoff dead, victims of their own machinations.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Murdock MacQuarrie | Director |
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| Murdock MacQuarrie |
