Under the Mask of Honesty (1914)
When Robert, the son of a wealthy banker, meets a young woman on the tennis courts of the Grand Hotel, and is first at her side when she trips and sprains her ankle, he does the most natural thing a young bachelor could do, falls in love with her. It is well known to the police that Robert's father is in league with a desperate band of crooks, captained by the Jack of Spades, but they have never been able to get sufficient evidence for his arrest and conviction. Into his father's home, furnished with ill-gotten gains, Robert brings his charming young bride. Shortly afterwards he leaves for the African diamond fields to superintend the construction of a new railroad. Robert's father dies of apoplexy and Hesperia takes charge of the bank's affairs. The Jack of Spades calls upon her and demands that she continue negotiations with him. From this time on exciting events are reeled off with rapidity, poor Hesperia, determined to save the good name of her husband, Robert, and the rather soiled reputation of her dead father-in-law, meets the Jack of Spades and submits to his blackmailing demands. Robert returns from Africa and finding his wife acting strangely, follows and confronts her in the secret rendezvous where she has gone to confer with the Jack of Spades. In a tragic scene, after the desperado has explained matters satisfactorily, Robert forgives Hesperia, and ceding the tainted money to the Jack of Spades, leaves with her for South Africa to start life anew.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Baldassarre Negroni | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| Hesperia | |
| Livio Pavanelli | |
| Franz Sala | |
| Rambaldo De Goudron |
