The Vow (1914)
Beatrice lives with her father and her brother, Bernard, in a fishing village in Sicily. Lorenzo, a neighbor, woos Beatrice, but is repulsed, and becomes a secret enemy of Bernard. Donald Hanford, an American author, his sister, Elsie, and their friend, Dexter Harrison, come to the village as tourists. Bernard and Hanford quarrel over Anonetta, a gay Sicilian woman, and the men agree to fight a duel with pistols. Bernard, not aware of Lorenzo's enmity, makes Lorenzo his second. Hanford, having no wish to kill Bernard, extracts the bullets from his pistol but Lorenzo changes the pistols, and in the duel Bernard is shot dead. Beatrice swears a vendetta against the slayer of her brother, but the identity of the Americans being unknown to either herself or Lorenzo, she tells Lorenzo she would wed him if he locates the Americans. Lorenzo remembers having seen one of the pistols marked "D.H." Lorenzo searches, finds the Americans, and sees Harrison and his betrothed, Elsie, chatting together. Learning Harrison's initials, Lorenzo and Beatrice believe Harrison to be the slayer of Bernard. Harrison and Elsie suddenly go to London, and Beatrice sends Lorenzo there to kill Harrison. Hanford goes boating, meets disaster, and is saved from drowning by Beatrice's father, and taken to their home and nursed by her. They fall in love, Hanford proposes marriage, but Beatrice says she is bound by a vow to Lorenzo. Beatrice prays, a vision of her dead brother appears, tells her not to be bound by the vow, and later she accepts Hanford's offer to wed. Lorenzo learns in London that Harrison is not the man who shot Bernard, and returns home, there learning that the man he is to kill is betrothed to Beatrice. Lorenzo goes to a cliff to slay the lovers, but Bernard's vision comes, accuses Lorenzo of the slaying, and Lorenzo falls to his death on the rocks below the cliff.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| E.D. Horkheimer | Producer |
| H.M. Horkheimer | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Francis McDonald | |
| Joseph Singleton | |
| Fred Whitman | |
| Charles Dudley |
