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A Lonely Road (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

A Lonely Road (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

When Jane and Margaret's father died, the two sisters found themselves without a cent in the world. Jane, a helplessly inefficient girl, would soon have succumbed to the force of adverse circumstances, but Margaret was made of different ...See moreWhen Jane and Margaret's father died, the two sisters found themselves without a cent in the world. Jane, a helplessly inefficient girl, would soon have succumbed to the force of adverse circumstances, but Margaret was made of different stuff. So, while Jane stayed at home and wept, Margaret went out, took a position as stenographer, and supported the little family. In the course of time, Jane married. If she had married a man with even a moderately respectable salary, Margaret might have been relieved of some portion of her burden. Instead, Jane married a sallow youth with an insecure salary of fifteen dollars a week, and small prospects of advancement. Shortly after Jane's marriage, Margaret met Edward McBride, a wealthy man whose life was devoted to the untiring pursuit of pleasure. The strength of Margaret's character, her fearlessness, her common sense, all so different from the qualities he had observed in the women of his acquaintance, aroused a keen interest in the jaded millionaire. For two weeks he showered her with attentions. Then suddenly he was called to Europe. He bade Margaret farewell, and asked her to wait for him, and the girl promised. After McBride left, the old dreary round closed in again about Margaret. Jane's husband died, and the helpless widow was left penniless with two children to care for. To meet the necessities forced upon her, Margaret moved to a distant city, lured by the promise of more remunerative work. She wrote bright, cheerful letters to Jane, and stinted herself to send her sister the money she required. Meanwhile McBride had turned back to the gay life from which Margaret had temporarily distracted him. At last, after ten more years of revel had gone to his wasted account, he realized, with a sudden sickening of heart, all he had missed, and resolved to go back to Margaret and try to build his life anew. On the night before he returned, Margaret, sick and faint, climbed to her dreary tenement and sat down at the dingy little table. Present and future alike were hopeless. She was too tired to work anymore, and the man she loved would never come back. In the morning when McBride and Jane came into the tenement, Margaret was still sitting at the table. So natural was her pose that for a moment they thought she was still alive. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Gertrude McCoy Jane Jane See fewer	Nelson (1926)
Mary Fuller Margaret Margaret See fewer	The Huntress of Men (1916)
Charles Ogle Edward McBride Edward McBride See fewer	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
Alan Crolius Oscar Foster Oscar Foster See fewer	The Magistrate's Story (1915)
William West Actor Actor See fewer	The Rise and Fall of Weary Willie (1911)