Short film
The Sting of It
1915 · 25 min
A somber, old-fashioned melodrama that unfolds slowly, weighed down by tragedy and secrets, with a quiet tension beneath its earnest surface.
- Directed by
- Charles Bartlett
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Edward Coxen, Winifred Greenwood, George Field
- Overview
- Mark Pelton's young wife, Laura, is a drug addicted kleptomaniac. In her delirium she writes her father, John Calvert, accusing her husband of cruelly wrecking her life, then commits suicide. Calvert, knowing the truth, puts the letter aside. Ten years pass and Calvert hopes his niece Pauline will pair with Mark, but she has fallen under the charms of fortune hunter Elmer Danby and plans to elope with him. When Calvert dies, he leaves his estate jointly to Pauline and Mark, provided they marry. If one refuses, he or she forfeits all to the other. Pauline, having found the letter at first announces her engagement to Danby, forfeiting her rights but when he is exposed as a grabber and she learns the truth about Mark they wed.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, dark, earnest and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Addiction, grief, deception, family
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Charles Bartlett
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Edward Coxen, Winifred Greenwood, George Field
