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Siren of Corsica (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

Siren of Corsica (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

Carola de Lisle, a wealthy Corsican woman, with all the fierceness of her race, has been for two seasons the reigning sensation of Nice. Her recklessness at the gambling tables causes her to become known as "Belle Corsicaine." John Selden,...See moreCarola de Lisle, a wealthy Corsican woman, with all the fierceness of her race, has been for two seasons the reigning sensation of Nice. Her recklessness at the gambling tables causes her to become known as "Belle Corsicaine." John Selden, a wealthy American, who is on a business trip to Europe arrives in company with a friend Philip Shaw. Carola tries hard to capture Selden with her wiles and although deeply in love with his wife at home he is not averse to a little flirtation with the beautiful Corsican. She makes him her guest in her apartments, and his name is many times mingled with hers when they are seen together in the automobile parades of the afternoons. But the American does not suspect that he has a bitter enemy, supposedly his friend in the person of Joseph Morse, once an unsuccessful suitor for the hand of his wife, and his escapades with the Corsican are treasured as being seeds for the sowing of discord on his return to America. On one occasion Morse makes a snap shot picture of Selden and Carola together, apparently in a spirit of jest but in reality to furnish evidence of at least constructive infidelity to the wife at home. On the arrival of Morse in America, he immediately excites the jealousy of Lenore Selden by telling her of her husband's escapades with Carola, and showing her the photograph with them together. Selden's young son Jack, a lad of 13 or 14 years of age, refuses to believe the stories to the discredit of his father and sends him a cablegram urging him to return home at once. Then it becomes necessary for Selden to inform Carola that he is a married man and their pleasant relations must come to an end. She writes him a note saying that rather than see him leave her for another woman she would kill both him and herself. On receiving no reply from him, she proceeds to his room to find that he has departed for America. She secures his address at the hotel office and follows him to New York, where they arrive on the same day in separate steamers. She proceeds at once to a hotel and Selden to his home. Here he is coldly received by his wife and on demanding a reason for it, learns of Morse's vile tales against him and telephones him to come to the house at once. Morse, never dreaming that his deceit has been discovered, replies that he will come. At the same time Carola has left her hotel and proceeded to the address secured in Nice. Before Morse's arrival at the Selden home, the husband endeavors to convince his wife of his fidelity, but without success. In a burst of affection he takes her in his arms and the scene is witnessed by the vengeful Corsican outside the window, pistol in hand. But before she can fire the shot, Morse is announced. Morse enters the room with Selden, and the latter shows him a paper to sign, in which he confesses that he has spread lying tales about him to influence his wife. This Morse refuses to sign, and before Selden can enforce compliance Carola shoots through the window and escapes not knowing that her bullet has reached Morse's heart instead of Selden's. The police are called and an examination made. The confession intended for Morse to sign and a pistol with one chamber empty, are held to be sufficient evidence of Selden's guilt. He is arrested, tried, found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. After appeals to the governor have failed, the stricken family endeavors to settle down and wait until the long years have waned away, and among the first duties assumed by the wife and son is the packing away of his wearing apparel. While folding a coat little Jack discovers in one of the pockets, the note written to Selden by Carola in Nice, and Lenore now believes that she is on the track of the true criminal. But the police refuse to busy themselves with the case, since there is no evidence that the woman has ever been in New York. Lenore, however, is not satisfied and visits her husband in the penitentiary. While not hopeful for the success of her plan to proceed to Nice and meeting Carola, he is only too glad to consent to any plan that may lighten his own burden of apparent guilt. Accordingly she proceeds with her son to Nice. She is armed with a requisition from the governor of her state, in case that the probable guilt of the suspected Corsican can be established. Proceeding to the Casino, she mingles at once with the people there, and meets Carola at one of the gambling tables. Carola wins heavily, and invites Lenore to supper. At the table, under the influence of wine, Carola acknowledges that she has been in New York, and left it again within three hours, the noise having almost driven her mad. When Carola passes along the corridor to her room she becomes conscious that she is being followed. She opens the door of her room, but before she can close it Lenore stands before her and accuses her of the murder of Morse. Carola under the sudden accusation convinces Lenore of her guilt. She proceeds to the push button on the wall for the purpose of calling the hotel people when in her terror Carola seizes her. A fierce struggle ensues between the two women and Lenore is being overpowered when Jack, hearing the noise in the room, calls the police, and the guilty woman is in the hands of the law to be taken back to America. 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Name	Known for
Lila Leslie Carola de Lisle (as Lilie Leslie) Carola de Lisle (as Lilie Leslie) See fewer	What's to Do? (1933)
Jack Standing John Selden John Selden See fewer	The Evangelist (1916)
Florence Hackett Lenore Selden Lenore Selden See fewer	The Beloved Adventurer (1914)
Raymond Hackett Jack - The Selden Son Jack - The Selden Son See fewer	The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
Herbert Fortier Morse Morse See fewer	A Woman Went Forth (1915)
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