The Stolen Face (1913)
A beautiful cabinet of carved teak, inlaid with ebony and ivory, and ornate with chiseled gold, used as ormolu, a real museum piece, an object d'art, one of the finest and rarest ever imported from the Flowery Kingdom, serves as the crux, about which is cleverly woven a story of originality, aromatic and instinct with that subtle sense of danger ever lurking in Occidental mysteries, is the new picture play, "The Stolen Face." Nothing is sacred from the profaning hand of the vandalistic tourist, and when Gray, an American artist, strays into the Temple of the God of Mercy, he covets the masking face of its beautifully lacquered idols. A Japanese general, who has been privileged to photograph this sacred symbol before departing to the wars, leaves his Kodak in the temple while he goes out to get a tripod. Gray sees a chance to enter the edifice unobserved, goes in and takes the face from the idol. In his pilfering he steps upon the bulb operating the shutter of the photographic instrument and is unconsciously pictured. The priests, discovering the loss of their sacred care, invest three young men as avengers to restore it. The general puts a print of the picture in the secret drawer of his cabinet, and then accidentally breaks the original plate. Eventually this cabinet becomes the property of a United States senator, whose daughter is wooed by Artist Gray, The avengers locate the cabinet and try to secure the photograph. The artist senses danger and tries to burn his now hideous and imminently tragic trophy. The girl finds the idol's face and he gladly gives it to her. She next finds the picture in the cabinet which shows her suitor as the thief. She dismisses him as altogether unworthy and restores the idol's face to the Japanese ambassador, indicating that she found it in a curio shop, which saves the cowardly but humiliated Gray from the yellow avengers.
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GenresDrama
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Oscar Eagle | Director |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Thomas Carrigan | |
| Adrienne Kroell | |
| Charles Clary | |
| Gloria Gallop |
