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The Harvest of Regrets

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

The story

“Sheldon and his daughter Mary live in a small Western settlement. When Sheldon hears that Henry Moreland, his boyhood chum in the East, has died, he invites Moreland’s son, Harry, to come out to Montana. The young man accepts gladly, for he has become involved with an adventuress, and is exceedingly anxious to get out of the woman’s clutches. In the West, he falls in love with Mary Sheldon, and all goes well until Kate, the adventuress, is in need of more money. She follows him, and with the aid of Red Morrisey, an unwelcome suitor of Mary’s, manages to expose Harry’s past to the girl and her father. Before Harry can explain anything, Mary, in tears, has driven him from the house. A few days later, while Sheldon is away, Morrisey forces himself into Mary’s presence. Harry arrives just in time to save her from insult. Convinced of Harry’s courage and devotion, the Sheldons forgive everything, and Harry and Mary are happy.”

Summary from Reel Life · 12 September 1914

What the papers said

3 reviews

“An old but effective story, splendidly told by some of Thanhouser’s best players, including Harry Benham, who is certainly as sound and polished an actor as may be seen on the screen. The plot deals with the love story of a fast young man who goes to the country to marry a girl for her money. Having met her, however, …

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“An old but effective story, splendidly told by some of Thanhouser’s best players, including Harry Benham, who is certainly as sound and polished an actor as may be seen on the screen. The plot deals with the love story of a fast young man who goes to the country to marry a girl for her money. Having met her, however, he rapidly falls in love, and then has cause to repent certain rash statements which he has made in the past as to his motives, and which are quoted against him by an unscrupulous rival. After numerous dramatic situations the play ends happily.”

The Bioscope · 14 January 1915

“A young man visits a friend of his father in the West and while staying in his house falls in love with his daughter. The affair is brought to a sudden end, however, when an adventuress with whom the boy had been infatuated puts in an appearance and demands money. He saves his sweetheart from insult, however, and thereby is returned to her good graces.”

The Morning Telegraph · 27 September 1914

More reviews

10 October 1914The Moving Picture World1 min

“An extravagant young city fellow leaves his city mistress to go West to marry the daughter of his father’s friend. The adventuress follows and exposes their old relationship. The young man afterward saves the girl from the attack of another man and thus wins forgiveness. This is handled with only a fair degree of strength.”

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Cast and crew

Director
Arthur Ellery
Cast
Al Reitz
Bill Sullivan
C.R. Mc Caskill
Charles Emerson
David H. Thompson as Red Morrisey
Ethel Stevens as Kate, the adventuress
Harry Benham as Harry Moreland
Howard M. Mitchell
Howard Mitchell
J.S. Murray
James Dunne
James J. Dunne
James S. Murray
Justus D. Barnes as Mr. Sheldon
Lord McCaskill
Mildred Heller as Mary Sheldon
N.S. Woods
W. Eugene Moore, Jr.
Walter K. Scott
William A. Sullivan
Photographed by
Henry Cronjager
Lawrence Fowler

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Filmed in
Franklin Furnace, New Jersey
Bowers’ notes

A Thanhouser advertisement in the September 26, 1914 issue of The Moving Picture World noted: “featuring Morris Foster, Miss Kroell, Sidney Bracy, and John Lehnberg.” Presumably, the advertisement was in error. This cast listing was probably intended for The Emperor’s Spy (released September 13, 1914).

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1914 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “The Harvest of Regrets”. thanhouser.org/films/the-harvest-of-regrets/

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