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The Grail (1915)
Short | Short, Drama
Dean Griswold, a banker and a loving father, has become involved in speculation and lost his private fortune. He is in the midst of a gripping market campaign when his daughter, Jean, and his young cashier, Williamson, reach the most ...See moreDean Griswold, a banker and a loving father, has become involved in speculation and lost his private fortune. He is in the midst of a gripping market campaign when his daughter, Jean, and his young cashier, Williamson, reach the most beautiful part of their courtship. Jean, a girl of romantic disposition, has absorbed the spirit of romance from the books she has been reading. She worships the chivalry and gallantry of the ancient knights. She insists that her sweetheart, Williamson, shall make a modern knight of himself and seek his Grail, pledging herself to marry him when he has found it. Williamson accepts the charge and before the tapestries of "The Grail," she dubs him her knight. She gives him a knot of ribbon as her favor and he goes out into the world to conquer sin and relieve distress. He learns of her father's embarrassment and as his first sacrifice he gives the banker his entire personal fortune to help him out of his difficulties. But this money is absorbed by the hungry "market" and the father, in a moment of weakness, yields to a temptation and uses additional funds from the bank. He is ruined and about to destroy himself when the youthful knight discovers him, saves his life, assumes the blame for the shortage and disappears, asking only that the father explain his sacrifice to his daughter and protect his love. The bank breaks, and with the scandal made public, Griswold has not the heart to confess to his daughter. He allows her to believe that Williamson was, in reality, an absconder and she puts him out of her heart. Eventually all the characters go west to renew their fortunes or forget their griefs. They meet at a dry water-hole in the desert. The father, almost crazed by thirst and unable to go further, is left by his daughter while she seeks aid, and during her absence the hero arrives. Embittered by what he considers the duplicity of the father, he gloats over his sufferings and refuses him a drink of water, until the old spirit of knighthood is brought back to him in an impressive manner. The denouement, the regeneration and the discovery of "The Grail" form a strong climax. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Writer
L.V. Jefferson (scenario)
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Carl Laemmle
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Updated Jun 30, 1915
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Jun 30, 1915 (United States)

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Williamson Williamson   See fewer
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