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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Obsession
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Robert Goodman?
Cast: Edward Smith (Gunboat Smith), [?] Francis Ford?
Méliès Star-Film [American] production. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 5 September 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [From Méliès promotional materials] Lee surreptitiously breaks his engagement with Dorothy, whose deepest and first affections he had been honored with, and marries Jesse. The shock leads Dorothy to attempt to end her life, and, failing this, to become a nun. Lee is remorseful from the day of his marriage and even on his honeymoon is obsessed by the presence of her whom he had wronged, and haunted by his conscience he becomes insane, and not till Dorothy is called as nurse and gives complete forgiveness is reason restored and happiness resumed.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 October 2018.
References: Thompson-Star p. 232 : ClasIm-226 p. 55 : Website-IMDb.
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