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  • The Ultimate Sacrifice (1911)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Ultimate Sacrifice (1911)
Short | Short, Drama
There are women in the world who want to be loved and who want to love in return, and there are women who want to be loved to toy with their lovers, and in the final chapter cast them aside, broken to heart and in spirit, and coquette is ...See moreThere are women in the world who want to be loved and who want to love in return, and there are women who want to be loved to toy with their lovers, and in the final chapter cast them aside, broken to heart and in spirit, and coquette is their name. There is one of them, a duchess in Paris, where there also are a number of them. She casts her eyes on Pierre, a young marquise, whose heart has as yet been untouched by the wiles of woman. What at first is only desire on his part, ripens into true and intense love, and when she realizes her success, she spurns his advances, spurns his ardent wooing. The marquis, angered out of his senses by her disdainful attitude, brands her with a cross and leaves her. After he is gone, it dawns upon her, that after all, she really loves him, realizes that she has cast away that which she has really desired. In remorse she decides to enter a convent and writes him of her intentions, asking him to forgive her for the cruelty she has indicted upon him. When he receives the note, his old love is reawakened, the old desire returns. He goes to the convent to ask her to leave with him, but she tells him she has taken the life vows. That night, broken-hearted, he returns and forces his way into her cell to plead with her to break her vows and fell with him. He finds the wild wings stilled, the wild spirit flown, to find that grim grief has silenced the human heart of her. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Edwin S. Porter
Writer
Honoré de Balzac (novel "La duchesse de Langeais")
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Updated May 4, 1911
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May 4, 1911 (United States)

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