The Tie That Binds (1910)
How often hospitality is abused and friendship violated by an unscrupulous man! Mr. Lewis enters the Carter home, which harbors a loving wife, husband and child, only to bring misery. The minute Mr. Carter leaves the room this false friend tells of his love and her husband's perfidy. Mrs. Carter refuses to believe him and leaves the room with her son. Sometimes fate seems to play into the hands of sinners, and so it is now. Barbara Howe, a friend of the Carters, is talking with her brother, who is accused of murder, and he is begging her to ask Mr. Carter to help prove his innocence. She promises to do this and goes in search of her friend, whom she finds in conversation with Lewis. She asks a few moments alone with Mr. Carter, and it is this that helps Lewis in his unmanly act. Carter, after persuasion, promises his aid, and in gratitude Barbara embraces him. Lewis shows this scene to Mrs. Carter and she, believing the evidence of her own eyes promises to go away with Lewis. When that night she prepares to leave her home, her courage almost fails, but she is goaded on by Lewis. When her flight is discovered, her husband is overcome with sorrow. Five years later Mrs. Carter is alone and in need of employment. She sees an advertisement for governess for her own son and decides that the ravages time has made in her appearance will be disguise enough for her to apply. She secures the situation and it is at the death bed of her boy that the housekeeper learns her identity. Broken-hearted over the little chap's death, she becomes ill, and when the end is near, she begs to see her husband. He is astonished to see her and readily forgives, begging her to live for him; but she dies, at least happier for his pardon.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Fred J. Balshofer | Director |
| Fred J. Balshofer | Cinematographer |
