Mortmain

Sep 6, 1915

0h 50m

★ 0.0

The Censorship Boards of Chicago and Philadelphia Refused to Let This Picture be Shown in These Towns. See What a Treat We Are Giving You.

Overview

Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs. Among those deeply interested is Mortmain, a musician and a friend of the surgeon.

Genres

Drama

Horror

Production Companies

Vitagraph Company of America

Mortmain Trailers

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Cast

Mortmain

Robert Edeson

Gordon Russell

Donald Hall

Flaggs

Edward Elkas

Bella Forsythe

Muriel Ostriche

Tom Forsythe

James Morrison

Flynt

Joseph Weber

Miss Fickles

Karin Norman

Dr. Pennison Crisp

J. Herbert Frank

Scalscope

Claude James

Mortmain's Butler

Roland Osborne

Society Lady

Helen Pillsbury

Minnie, the homeliest girl in town, is devoted to her father, a discouraged inventor who has been working on a wireless device. Subject to the sneers of her neighbors, Minnie "invents" a lover and sends herself letters and flowers. Her stepsister suspects the truth and threatens to expose her. Desperate, she claims an unidentified body at the morgue and tells a reporter that this is her lover, unaware that the body is that of a Chinese man. The absent-minded reporter sees her heart and forgets about the big story. After further disappointments in the invention, Minnie's stepmother decides to leave her father. Her father then has a success and becomes rich. At a celebration, the stepsister and townspeople are surprised when a new couple appear, which turn out to be the former reporter and his lovely wife Minnie.

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