Short film
With the Eyes of the Blind
1913 · 20 min
A hushed, old-fashioned melodrama of touch and concealed guilt, playing out with quiet tension and a bittersweet romantic ache.
- Directed by
- Walter Edwin
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Charles Ogle, Mary Fuller, Robert Brower
- Overview
- Ruthless stockbroker John McLane has ruined James Horton through reckless money management. McLane is extremely hard in business matters. When Horton’s son, Walter, confronts McLane they have a stormy altercation in which McLane is accidentally killed with a paper knife. McLane’s blind daughter Nora has been upstairs during the incident but runs down to find Horton sitting in a chair feigning sleep. Nora touches him lightly on the face thus impressing his features in her mind and when she turns to her father he flees. In time Nora’s blindness is cured and at a house party she meets Walter Horton. He recognizes her but she does not know him, and they fall in love but when she touches his face, she realizes the truth.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, tense, romantic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Guilt, deception, love, identity
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Walter Edwin
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Charles Ogle, Mary Fuller, Robert Brower



