Short film
The Outer Edge
1915 · 20 min
A somber, earnest silent melodrama that follows a man's harrowing descent and fragile recovery, offering a slow, compassionate look at addiction and second chances.
- Directed by
- E.H. Calvert
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard, Sidney Ainsworth
- Overview
- A physician is dragged down to the depths by the drug habit, losing position and wealth. After pawning every available possession except a revolver to satisfy his craving for the drug, he returns to his cheap lodging house to end his life. Half stupefied, he gets into the wrong room, where he finds a woman and daughter almost starved. He takes his revolver and pawns it to buy food for them. His own act of kindness gives him a new view of life and he struggles to break his habit. Many times he almost falls again, but is aided by a nurse whom he had known years before. Finally he throws off the yoke altogether and wins back to manhood and the love of a woman.
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- Directed by
- E.H. Calvert
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard, Sidney Ainsworth
