A Midnight Call (1913)
Will Harvey and Jack Fielding are roommates at college and in love with the same girl, Katherine. She is in doubt as to which one she prefers. Spending a day at the beach Jack refuses to go in bathing with the others, as he was nearly drowned when a boy and has dreaded the ocean ever since. Katherine while rowing in a boat alone is upset and nearly drowned. Harvey is the man who rushes to her assistance and because he came to the front when Jack held back. Katherine gives her love to him. Jack is considered a coward not only by his roommate and Katherine, but by the college boys as well. Ten years later Katherine and Harvey are married and have a little daughter. One night when the parents are spending the evening at the theater the little girl, who is not feeling well, is left in charge of the maid. The maid deserts the child in order to flirt with a policeman. Later in the night Fielding, who has become a physician and a specialist of note while going by the house hears the wailing of a child in apparent agony. He enters the house, finds no one at home, and tracing the source of the cries sees that the child is sick with smallpox. The health officers are telephoned for and the house put under quarantine. Only the frantic mother is permitted to enter the house. Dr. Fielding has had a struggle with himself when he has learned whose child it is, but he buries his personal feelings under the influence of duty. He brings the little girl through her illness, but falls a victim to the disease himself, and pays for his self-sacrifice with his life.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| E.D. Horkheimer | Producer |
| H.M. Horkheimer | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Henry King |
