Name: The Keeper of the Bees
Released: 1925
Cast: Robert Frazer, Josef Swickard, Martha Mattox, Clara Bow, Alyce Mills

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Oct 18, 1925

Premiere Information

Salt Lake City premiere: ca19 Sep 1925

Production Company

Gene Stratton Porter Productions

Distribution Company

Film Booking Offices of America

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton Porter (Garden City, New York, 1925).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

6,712ft (7 reels)

Synopsis

World War hero James Lewis MacFarlane, tired of being shunted from one government hospital to another for a wound that will not heal, runs away when he learns that he has but a year to live. He is befriended by The Bee Master, who is ill and soon dies. Jamie inherits half of the estate and apiary, with the other half going to "Little Scout," an 11-year-old girl who dresses as a boy. He marries a girl about to drown herself because she is to bear a child out of wedlock; his "wife" disappears immediately afterward, leaving a note signed "Alice Louise MacFarlane." With the aid of a neighbor, Margaret Cameron, Jamie soon recovers his health. He is notified that his "wife" has given birth to a son, but when he arrives at the hospital Jamie discovers another woman wearing his ring. She dies, and Molly Cameron (Mrs. Cameron's daughter), the girl he really married, appears and confesses that she married Jamie to get her sister Alice a wedding ring and a marriage certificate to protect her reputation. All ends well, and Jamie remarries Molly.