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Love’s Victory
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Frank H. Crane (Frank Hall Crane)
Cast: Ethel Grandin [Lil, the wife], Alexander Gaden [George, the husband], Frank H. Crane (Frank Hall Crane) [Marsden, the boss]
[?] Victor Film Company or Independent Moving Pictures Company, Incorporated [IMP]? production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Stuart Paton. / Released 20 February 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Concealing her identity, Lil goes into her husband’s office to work. Marsden, the boss, has been gambling heavily on the stock market; money must be had. He returns home and practices the writing of a signature, and fixes up a check to be forged. Arriving at the office the next morning he gives it to Lil’s husband George to cash at the bank. George presents the check. It is questioned. George is arrested. He explains, but Marsden, realizing his position, denies all knowledge. George is jailed; he explains the affair to his horrified wife. She comforts him with the assurance that she will right matters. She does so in her own way; she enters Marsden’s rooms and secures evidence, then fights him. Marsden’s foot slips and he takes a fall down the elevator shaft. He is forced to bed, mortally injured. He repents, and his stocks having gone up, he turns them all over to the young couple for the injustice he did them in blaming George. In the end the couple is in their own home.
Reviews: [From The Moving Picture World, 21 February 1914, page ?] A two-reel number, written by Stuart Paton. Ethel Grandin, Frank H. Crane and Alexander Gaden play the leads, the story being one with a business setting. This gets the attention and proves very interesting, although it is not in any way a powerful production. The employer, often being found out as a forger, has a change of heart and turns over a big sum of money to the man he wronged.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 18 October 2022.
References: Slide-Aspects p. 32 : Website-IMDb.
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