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The Power of the Sea (I) (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

The Power of the Sea (I) (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

Peter Gilmore, dreamer, loves the sea and believes in its mother-power to heal sick bodies and reform sick souls. In a storm Enoch Allen, a drunken outcast, drifts to Peter's cabin. His sin-scarred face at the window suggests to Peter a ...See morePeter Gilmore, dreamer, loves the sea and believes in its mother-power to heal sick bodies and reform sick souls. In a storm Enoch Allen, a drunken outcast, drifts to Peter's cabin. His sin-scarred face at the window suggests to Peter a way to test his belief. He entices the outcast into the cabin with liquor, and when he falls to the floor in a drunken stupor, lifts the inert body, carries it to the shore, and plunges with it into the surf. In the weeks that follow Enoch fishes and hunts, growing body-strong and mind-sane by the clean, bracing ocean side. Each day the young man falls more deeply in love with Jessie, Peter's pretty daughter. As he is about to speak of his love, Jessie sees in the distance a floating spar. They investigate and find a man lashed to it. Life is not quite extinct. Jessie nurses the stranger back to slow-returning health. His name is Robert Moore. He is cultured, handsome, and appears much drawn to Jessie, who shows a liking for himself also. Enoch watches their friendship with love and jealousy raging in his heart. One day, coming upon Robert on a cliff above the sea, Enoch addresses the other bitterly. They quarrel. In the struggle Robert falls over the cliff. Enoch is about to leave him to his fate when the thought that Jessie's happiness may be bound up in the drowning man makes him hesitate. The strong power of the sea silently appeals to his better nature. He finally rescues Robert and carries him to the cabin. Jessie's anxiety convinces him that she does love the other man and he gathers together his few belongings and steals away from the bitter sight of their happiness. A case of whiskey washed ashore from a wreck attracts his attention. He is desperate with his disappointed love and longs to drown his sorrows, but the sea has done its healing work and its calm influence and the vision of his sweetheart in the waves saves him. He flings down the temptation and Jessie, who has followed him and watched his struggle with the anguish of pity and love goes to him and confesses that it is he whom she loves. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Thomas R. Mills Enoch Allen Enoch Allen See fewer	It's Love I'm After (1937)
Rosemary Theby Jessie Gilmore Jessie Gilmore See fewer	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921)
George Siegmann Peter Gilmore - Jessie's Father Peter Gilmore - Jessie's Father See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
George Morgan Robert Moore Robert Moore See fewer	The Lurking Peril (1919)
David Thompson Actor Actor See fewer	Robin Hood (1913)