28 Sep 1914
Mother
Maurice Tourneur's first American made film is a silent drama about a mother's love and sacrifice starring Emma Dunn, who also starred in the 1910 Broadway play version of the story.
The Still Alarm
The mad shriek of sirens-the wild clamor of bells. Smoke and flame pouring in dense black clouds from every window. The despairing cries of women and children trapped in that blazing inferno.
Lucy Fay leaves her husband, Richard, a fireman, for a suave politician, Perry Dunn. Richard compensates for the loss by adopting Drina, a baby girl whose mother perished in a fire. Drina develops into a beautiful young lady and becomes a model at a modiste shop owned by Dunn and managed by Lucy. Dunn is attracted to Drina and plots to get her alone by giving her a drugged drink. An untimely fire interferes with his plans, leaving Drina drugged and trapped by flames in Dunn's room, where she is sleeping.
Top Billed Cast
Helene Chadwick Lucy Fay
William Russell Richard Fay
Richard Travers Perry Dunn
Edna Marion Drina Fay
John T. Murray Andy Todd
Edward Hearn Tom Brand
Dot Farley Mrs. Maloney
Jacques D'Auray Manager of Modiste Shop
Erin La Bissoniere Masie Mush
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