A Woman's Revenge (1915)
Effie Dorgan has just completed her toilet. Slim enters and asks her for money, which she refuses. He grabs her purse and takes what he wants. Subsequently, the pair meet in a restaurant, where Weston Davis, a businessman, is dining with Bessie Aimes, a young and innocent girl. Effie sees Davis and recognizes him as the one who forced her to take her first drink. She sympathizes with the girl, and as Bessie is about to drink some liquor into which Davis has slyly dropped a drug, Effie interferes, telling Bessie not to drink. Effie directs Slim to take Bessie from the place, which he does, sending her home in a taxicab. Davis blows a police whistle which brings in the police. He shows a card and when the police are satisfied that Effie was forcing her attentions upon Davis, they take her from the place. She vows vengeance. A scheme is worked out whereby Kathleen, the four-year-old daughter of Davis, is to be kidnapped. The child is suddenly whisked away from its nurse in the park, and the "prostrated" parents get a letter demanding $10,000 ransom. Davis has just failed in business, and the money cannot be raised by him. Mrs. Davis is "distraught" and decides to sell her jewels. She gets $1,000 in this way and accidentally drops it in front of her house just as Effie is coming. Effie picks it up and keeps it. Mr. Davis has notified the police in the meantime, and as the kidnappers are wise, they do not touch a decoy that has been placed at the given spot. However, another decoy is placed and Slim is caught as he appears to take it. Effie, in sympathy with Kathleen's mother, returns the child. When Effie is arrested, she has changed the nun's habit she wore when in Kathleen's company, so that the child does not identity her as the kidnapper. Effie gives the $1,000 to an orphan asylum for the care of children who have never known a mother's love.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Langdon West | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| Miriam Nesbitt | |
| Frank McGlynn Sr. | |
| Bigelow Cooper | |
| Mabel Dwight |
