The Greater Devotion (1914)

ALL 02/11/1914 (en) Drama 10 Min
  • Release
    02/11/1914
  • Production
    Nestor Film Company
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    The Greater Devotion
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

The girl has three suitors: a young Mexican, who symbolizes love, a cripple, who symbolizes devotion, and a wealthy haciendiero, who symbolizes wealth. Despite the protests of Love and the pain of Devotion, the girl is given in marriage to Wealth by her father. A year lapses and the girl has suffered by her father's choosing. Wealth is faithless to her and heaps upon her head humiliation and indignity and finally brutality. Love returns to her and after listening to her story swears that he will kill Wealth, but Devotion restrains him with the advice that if he kills Wealth he can never have the girl. To insure the girl's happiness Devotion kills Wealth himself and then takes his own life.

  1. Wallace Reid

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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The Greater Devotion (1914) 10 Min

ALL 02/11/1914 (en)
Drama
  • Release 02/11/1914
  • Production
    Nestor Film Company
  • Original title The Greater Devotion
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The girl has three suitors: a young Mexican, who symbolizes love, a cripple, who symbolizes devotion, and a wealthy haciendiero, who symbolizes wealth. Despite the protests of Love and the pain of Devotion, the girl is given in marriage to Wealth by her father. A year lapses and the girl has suffered by her father's choosing. Wealth is faithless to her and heaps upon her head humiliation and indignity and finally brutality. Love returns to her and after listening to her story swears that he will kill Wealth, but Devotion restrains him with the advice that if he kills Wealth he can never have the girl. To insure the girl's happiness Devotion kills Wealth himself and then takes his own life.

  1. Wallace Reid

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer