Volume II: Filmography

THE METTLE OF A MAN

September 20, 1914 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel (990 feet)

Character: Drama

Cast: Harry Benham (Harry Raynor), Justus D. Barnes (John Ross), S. Lawrence (Robert Quinn), Mildred Heller (Alice, Quinn's daughter), Virginia Waite (Raynor's mother), N.S. Woods, Mrs. S. Stevens

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, September 12, 1914:

"Harry Raynor, private secretary to John Ross, the political boss, mortally fears his brutal employer. Ross imprisons Quinn, who has offended him politically, on a false charge of murder, and Raynor is just in time to save Alice, Quinn's daughter, from taking her life. He entrusts the girl, penniless and ill, to his mother. In her delirium she calls constantly for her father. The young man determines to steal from Ross the evidence of Quinn's innocence. The boss catches him in the act, and Raynor proves in a thrilling scene that he is the superior in both physical and moral courage. Quinn is exonerated, and Harry and Alice are married."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, September 26, 1914:

"Harry Benham in this number portrays the secretary of a corrupt political boss, whom he holds in deadly fear. But his nerve comes up when he learns how the boss has railroaded the girl's father to the penitentiary. This makes quite a pleasing offering. The photography is good."

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