The Man from the Sea (1914)
Carroll Brown and Bradley Wolf, both rich young men, are suitors for the hand of Marjory Sheppard. Marjory likes both men equally well and practically places the matter of a decision in their hands. Brown, who owns the yacht, Pole Star, has a fight with his captain and crew over wages and they desert after a melee in which Brown whips one of them. It is an opportune time to press his suit, but Wolf's presence delays the matter. Believing that with one out of the way the other would have a chance to win the girl, the two men go to Wolf's amateur wireless station on the beach of his seashore estate. The assistant is dismissed and it is to be a question of one band of poker, high cards winning. Wolf cheats and Brown leaves to board his yacht, now deserted. He meets Marjory on the way and is compelled to be indifferent to her. She, piqued, turns to Wolf. That evening, late, the yacht is set adrift and fired while Brown is in his wireless cabin. When he discovers the fire he also finds that he is barricaded in and that there is no escape. Inadvertently, through the balance of the pack of cards he carried away with him from Wolf's shack, he also learns that he was tricked and cheated. He calls Wolf on the wireless, but Wolf refuses him aid. Brown then tells him that though he has cheated him he will be with him on his wedding night. Wolf laughs at this seemingly impossible message and goes to meet Marjory. The next morning they find the beach strewn with wreckage, mute evidence of the blown up yacht. A wedding date is set for some months after, and the only disconcerting thing to mar Wolf's happiness is the message that comes to him, every little while, over the wireless that "I will be with you on your wedding night," and signed Carroll Brown, nine fathoms deep off Scarboro reef. On the night of the wedding the message comes again, only this time it reads "to-night." Wolf is called to his shack by his assistant at three minutes of ten. There, the sacred assistant having deserted him, he waits for the man who says he is coming back from the dead. Brown comes back, soaked and sodden, his clothes rotting and intertwined with sea grasses. The two men face each other the living and the dead. Brown tells Wolf of his cowardice and that he will never marry Marjory, but agrees to give him one more chance. They play again for her; three cuts, high cards winning. Brown wins and laughs at Wolf when in a frenzy he tells him that he will never take Marjory back to the sea with him. Marjory, meanwhile, becoming impatient, takes the machine and goes down to get Wolf. The machine skids and plunges over the sea wall into the sea and the half-drowned chauffeur is all that comes back from its depths, carrying the dread news to the wedding guests. They communicate with Wolf by phone just as Brown is leaving. It is the last link that binds him to sanity and seizing his revolver he fires repeatedly at the man from the sea as he passes into the night. The guests hurry down to the shore, but do not see Wolf as he throws open the door, but face both Brown and Marjory, sea bedraggled and death lined. Wolf staggers back as they disappear into the sea and frightened guests later find him stretched out over the table of his wireless, the smoking revolver clutched in his lifeless hand.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| John Ince | Director |
| Paul Dickey | Writer |
| Charles W. Goddard | Writer |
| George Terwilliger | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Kempton Greene | |
| Earl Metcalfe | |
| Anna Luther |
