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  • The Romany Rye (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Romany Rye (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
A young farmer visiting a gypsy camp to have his fortune told, meets the gypsy princess and falls in love with her. She pretends to return his affections. She warns him of a plot which the men of her tribe have laid to rob him, and he is ...See moreA young farmer visiting a gypsy camp to have his fortune told, meets the gypsy princess and falls in love with her. She pretends to return his affections. She warns him of a plot which the men of her tribe have laid to rob him, and he is induced to place in her hands for safe keeping, a large amount of money. He is attacked by the girl's jealous gypsy lover, but overpowers his assailant. When he goes to reclaim his money, with great cleverness, and in a flood of tears, she declares that it has been taken from her, meanwhile patting the knot in her sash where she is concealing the money. The youth touched by her apparent grief forgives her and after rescuing her from violence at the hands of her gypsy-sweetheart, he takes her to his own house to live with his mother. Here she is willful, ungrateful, and disrespectful to the kind old mother of her sweetheart. Her only desire is by fair means or foul to obtain from him every cent she can. He blinded to her faults by his love, marries her. Before the flowers of her bridal roses have faded, she heartlessly forces his mother from her home, to live with friends on a neighboring farm. Ungrateful for the home, love and station that her husband has given her, she turns upon him, bleeding him with fiendish rapacity of his money. In vain he reasons, pleads and makes a costly peace offering to her. She meets her old gypsy lover, and conspires with him to rob her husband of his last dollar and then run away together. The hour of her desertion arrives, the gypsy goes to her house to carry out the robbery. As she is about to leave the only home she has ever known, the faint voice of an awakening conscience whispers to her that perhaps she is not doing right. Her companion insists upon having every dollar she has extorted from her husband. She refuses to deliver it. The man at the pistol point attempts to force it from her, in the struggle he is shot and killed. Her husband hearing the report of the revolver, rushes into the house, sees his wife, whom in spite of her failings he has always trusted, arising in alarm from the dead body of the gypsy. Her head falls in shame, her conscience fully awakened thunders burning reproaches into her ear. With breaking heart she sinks to her knees before him, begging forgiveness. But his faith in her is shattered, his eyes are opened, and he refuses to take her back. Deserted by her husband and her former associates she determines by work and service to win back the home and love she has lost. At last the gray-haired mother whom she has treated so cruelly is touched by her efforts. Forgetting the injuries of the past the noble old lady pleads with her son for the forgiveness of the wife. The pair are reunited. She has learned by bitter experience it is only by a life of love, duty and unselfish devotion that lasting happiness is attained. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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