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  • The Mountebank's Daughter (1912)
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The Mountebank's Daughter (1912)
Short | Drama, Short
Young minister Herbert Strickland is called to the camp of a band of wandering players to attend a woman's death and becomes fascinated by the wild beauty of the dying woman's daughter Rosa. After the woman's death he revisits the camp; ...See moreYoung minister Herbert Strickland is called to the camp of a band of wandering players to attend a woman's death and becomes fascinated by the wild beauty of the dying woman's daughter Rosa. After the woman's death he revisits the camp; Rosa's father has driven her from the camp in a fit of drunken rage and Strickland finds her asleep by the roadside. He takes her home and he and the housekeeper strive to make her forget her old life. Her father, however, does not give her up so easily. Upon Strickland's refusal to restore her, he complains to the Vestry. The tongue of scandal begins to wag in the Parish; the girl is ostracized, and finally a deputation from the congregation waits upon the minister with the demand that the girl be sent away. Strickland refuses. He tells them that he loves Rosa and intends to marry her, but this is not satisfactory to his uncharitable parishioners. They are overheard by Rosa, and she determines that sooner than wreck Strickland's career, she will sacrifice her happiness and go back to her own people. She dons her old dress and steals out of the house. That same night Strickland receives a letter asking him to come and take his aged father's Pastorate. This offers a way out of their difficulty, but in going to tell the glad news to Rosa he finds her gone, and a note telling of her determination. He sets out after her and finds the player's camp deserted. His intuition leads him to where her mother lies buried, and he finds Rosa prostrate on the newly-made grave. He takes her back with him as his wife to his father's house, where she is received with open arms, and the old unhappiness is blotted out and forgotten. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Siegmund Lubin
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Dec 23, 1912 (United States)

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