Volume II: Filmography

REDEMPTION

September 16, 1913 (Tuesday)

Length: 1 reel (1,000 feet)

Character: Drama

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

SYNOPSIS, The Moving Picture World, September 20, 1913:

"The military academy had been the boy's home for many years. He was a likable lad and popular with both teachers and pupils. The principal's niece was a particular favorite of his, and the two youngsters were very happy together. As the boy grew toward manhood he acquired bad associates and, despite the kindly remonstrances of the school's principal, he became more and more unruly, and finally ran away. The little girl became a pretty young woman. She had many admirers, but looked with favor upon none of them, for she always remembered the attentive young soldier, and treasured the guns from his cap which he had given to her. Contact with the world had not improved the former schoolboy. He lacked the incentive for earnest endeavor, lost position after position, and finally became a tramp. His wanderings brought him near his old home, and the tramps who were his companions decided to enter the academy after all had retired to rob it. The young man was ready to attempt almost any desperate deed, but when he heard that his old school was menaced, the old timely loyalty revived, and fighting off the men that would have detained him, he hurried to the school and gave the alarm, then he turned to go away, as he thought, unrecognized, but the principal's niece recognized her old companion and greeted him joyfully. To his surprise he found that his friends at the school had no blame for him, only sympathy and compassion. The realization that there were people who really cared for him and wished him success, and that the principal's pretty niece plainly showed her liking for him, acted as an incentive to the wanderer. He went back into the world, resolved to win, and success came to him, and with it he won the heart of the principal's niece."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, September 27, 1913:

"A rather light, but pleasing plot built about drill work and a sham battle at a boy's military school. The former student of the school, now a wandering outcast, returns to find the girl he loved. Their recognition after the lapse of so many years was hardly convincing."

REVIEW, The New York Dramatic Mirror, September 24, 1913:

"A little boy is sent to a military school. He forms a childish attachment for the commandant's little niece. Years later he is grown up, and a tramp. He is invited by other vagabonds to rob the military school. He refuses, and warns the authorities. Then he meets the girl, promises to reform, and a year later makes good, and marries her. An ineffective plot saved only by fair acting and good photography."

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