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  • Their Island of Happiness (1915)
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Their Island of Happiness (1915)
Short | Short, Drama
Robert Belden comes into possession of a considerable fortune. His wife, Helen, is a rather plain, home-loving woman and does not care to assume the social duties to which her husband's wealth entitles her. Belden, however, enters into a ...See moreRobert Belden comes into possession of a considerable fortune. His wife, Helen, is a rather plain, home-loving woman and does not care to assume the social duties to which her husband's wealth entitles her. Belden, however, enters into a life of social gaiety, and his wife soon realizes that their interests have become widely divergent. Belden soon comes to pay rather marked attention to one particular woman in the social set in which his wife could take her place but does not. Word of her husband's infatuation reaches Mrs. Belden and she reproaches her husband. Belden endeavors to shift the responsibility for the estrangement to his wife's shoulders and leaves home in a rage. Mrs. Belden, although she still loves her husband, decides that it will be best for her to leave. Belden returns home to find her gone. Soon afterward the shallowness of the life he has been leading becomes apparent to him, and he makes every attempt to find his wife once more. Failing in this, he devotes himself to his business exclusively and amasses a fortune. Ten years pass. Helen Belden is a nurse in the leper's colony on an island in the Philippines. She is not permitted to leave the island. Belden on a trip around the world stops off at Manila. Mrs. Belden reads of his arrival and, knowing that if she were to be found in her husband's embrace, he too would be returned to the lepers' island. She decides to carry out her scheme of revenge. By bribing a Chinese fisherman she contrives to escape from the island and secures a room near her husband's in a Manila hotel. She secures entrance to her husband's suite after having 'phoned to the island, giving the number of the room in the hotel occupied by her husband as the place where she can be found. Belden is overcome with joy when he meets his wife after the long lapse of years. She holds him off from herself, however. Belden tells her with great emotion of his untiring attempts to find her and begs her forgiveness. As Helen listens she is impelled to believe in his sincerity. She tells him of her life and her terrible purpose in coming to his room. As she sobs out her story a knock is heard at the door. The officers of the leper colony enter. Helen tells them that Belden has not touched her and they start away with Helen their captive. As they leave the room, however, Belden can control himself no longer and leaps forward. Taking his wife in his arms he kisses her ardently, telling the horrified officers that they now have two passengers for Lepers' Island. The final scene shows Belden and his wife reunited silhouetted against an ocean sunset on their way to the island, dreaded by all others, but a haven of happiness to Belden and his wife in their declining years. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Jan 21, 1915 (United States)

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