At the Eleventh Hour (1914)
Alice Rodney, visiting New York, becomes engaged to Philip Barton. Her father, James Rodney, takes an intuitive dislike to Barton, and seeks information concerning him. He already is troubled with a son who is constantly demanding money and threatening him, and does not care to add another trouble to his family. Barton overhears the brother and sister conniving concerning the opening of the safe in the library at 11 o'clock that night, to get money for Ralph. James Rodney, having discovered the unsavory reputation of Barton, calls him to his library about 10 o'clock that evening. They have an argument in which Barton fells Rodney to the floor, fatally injuring him. As he falls, he clutches Barton's watch chain, and as the chain parts the watch is hurled across the room. At the same time the clock falls from the low bookcase, and stops. Seeing the man dead, Barton coolly, but quickly destroys all the incriminating letters, and then with diabolical cunning, moves the hands of the clock forward an hour, which would readily establish an alibi for him, replacing the clock under the form of the dead man. In the meantime, Ralph, in order to keep the engagement with his sister, comes at the appointed hour, climbs through the window, and gropes in the dark. Barton rushes in, turns on the light, and calls for help. Ralph is discovered kneeling over his father's body. The boy protests that he found his father dead, but Barton points to the clock as the accuser, the hands having stopped on the hour. The constables arrive, working entirely on the evidence of Barton, take the misguided and unfortunate youth with them. A detective, however, who makes a more careful survey of the premises, finds the watch that was snatched from Barton, in a corner of the room under a case; the watch having stopped at the hour of ten. By placing the bits of evidence together, he easily proves the criminality of Barton.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Palmer Bowman | |
| Ollie Harbuval | |
| Grant Foreman | |
| Clayton Macklenn |
