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  • The Birth-Mark (1911)
  • Short | Drama, Short
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The Birth-Mark (1911)
Short | Drama, Short
Destitute, the grief-stricken man decides to go west to build up a fortune. His little babe in arms he leaves on the door-step of a mansion. The child has a birthmark on its arm. A thief picks it up from the door-step and takes it home, ...See moreDestitute, the grief-stricken man decides to go west to build up a fortune. His little babe in arms he leaves on the door-step of a mansion. The child has a birthmark on its arm. A thief picks it up from the door-step and takes it home, and his childless wife adopts it. The girl is made to follow the vocation of its foster parents, and grows to womanhood. She meets a wealthy young man and the two fall in love. Her father has a "job" on and insists that she go with him. Reluctantly she does so, but tells him it is the last time. The "job" happens to be the rooms of the girl's lover, and she compels the crook to leave without touching anything. She is prevented from following by the young man's entrance. He mistakes why she is there, but when he seeks to take advantage of it she repulses him, and, ashamed, he apologizes. She refuses to tell him why she is there, and he, having faith in her, does not insist upon further explanations. He calls at her home after that and asks her to be his wife, and she refuses, though admitting her love. The thief seeks to take advantage of the rich young man by blackmailing him, and in a heated quarrel she discovers that he is not her father and runs away. Starving and destitute she falls into the temptations of one more theft, and it proves to be the home of her father, who has grown rich and has been futilely searching for his daughter. After entering she has a revulsion of feeling, and decides to depart without taking anything, but her father discovers her. He disarms her and gets part of her story, despite the sobbing that overwhelms her. Instinctively feeling that it is his child, he seizes her in his arm and roughly tears the dress from her shoulder, disclosing the birth-mark. After the reunion she is seen very happy in her father's love, and joyful in the knowledge that she can with a clear conscience many the young man who has returned to her side. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Dec 30, 1911
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Dec 30, 1911 (United States)

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