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The Substitute

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

“Grieving over the death of her daughter, Mrs. Sinclair, a wealthy widow, loses her mind. After trying a dozen other expedients to restore her reason, the widow’s physician introduces Ann Haggerty, an inmate of a girl’s reformatory, to Mrs. Sinclair and tells her the girl is her daughter. Mrs. Sinclair, when she recovers, refuses to believe that her daughter has died and takes Ann to her heart. The girl’s rascally brother, ‘Bull’ Haggerty, learns of his sister’s good fortune and secures a position as groom with the Sinclair family where he blackmails his sister. The girl finally triumphs over her fear of ‘Bull,’ defends Mrs. Sinclair’s property and retains the love of Ralph Foster, a young man who visits Mrs. Sinclair from the West.”

Summary from Reel Life · 11 July 1914

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Cast and crew

Director
Carroll Fleming
Cast
Arthur Bauer as Dr. Stanley
Carey L. Hastings as Mrs. Sinclair
John Lehnberg as Bull Haggerty
Joseph H. Phillips
Joseph Phillips
Mignon Anderson as Ruth Sinclair and Ann Haggerty; two roles
Nolan Gane as Ralph Foster, a young Westerner
Wilford Younge
Writer
Philip Lonergan

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More about this film

Bowers’ notes

The release date for this film is listed as July 7, 1914 in a synopsis in Reel Life, July 11, 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 Substitute”. thanhouser.org/films/the-substitute/

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