The Blindness of Devotion
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Cast & Crew
J. Gordon Edwards
Robert B. Mantell
Genevieve Hamper
Stuart Holmes
Claire Whitney
Henry Leone
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In a prologue, the wealthy Count de Carnay promises his dying life-long friend that he will bring up his son Pierre as his own. Fifteen years later, the count adopts his seventeen-year-old niece Bella. Pierre, now an officer, and Bella fall in love and secretly become engaged. After the count marries seductress Renee Delacroix, Pierre, returning from duty, succumbs to Renee's advances without knowing who she is and remains her lover even after he learns the truth, although he is remorseful. When the suspicious count finds them together, Bella, to protect the count from pain, becomes Pierre's wife "in name only." After Pierre refuses to see Renee while the count is alive, she attempts to poison the count, but he sees her preparations in a mirror and switches cups. Meanwhile, Pierre, who has been rebuked by the count, shoots himself. After she drinks the poison, the count denounces Renee and chokes her. He drags her up a flight of stairs and throws her body across Pierre's.
Director
J. Gordon Edwards
Cast
Robert B. Mantell
Genevieve Hamper
Stuart Holmes
Claire Whitney
Henry Leone
Charles Young
Jack Standing
Crew
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This was the first film of the eminent Shakespearean actor Robert B. Mantell, and his wife, Genevieve Hamper.
