Her Debt of Honor
Cast & Crew
William Nigh
Valli Valli
William Davidson
William Nigh
J. H. Goldsworthy
Frank Bacon
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
After her architect father dies, Marian Delmar receives a monthly allowance from Varcoe, another architect, until his own death. Over the objections of John Hartfield, her sweetheart, Marian decides to repay Varcoe by nursing back to health his dissolute son Olin, who is dying from hard living. While staying with Olin, at his estate on the St. Lawrence River at the Canadian border, she discovers papers explaining that her father had been the brains behind Varcoe's architectural success. Marian realizes that the monthly payments had indicated Varcoe's thanks as well as his guilty conscience. After Olin seduces an Indian girl working in the house, it is revealed that Olin's own mother had been an Indian and that the Indians who live in huts on the estate are the last members of his mother's tribe. Sensing that his various illnesses are irreversible, Olin throws one last wild party, where he tries to rape Marian. John and one of his Indian friends rescue her and wound Olin, who crawls to one of the huts. The father of a girl he had seduced shoots him, and Olin dies in the arms of his mother's father. Marian and her sweetheart now make plans for their marriage.
Director
William Nigh
Cast
Valli Valli
William Davidson
William Nigh
J. H. Goldsworthy
Frank Bacon
Mrs. M. Brundage
Ilean Hume
Frank Montgomery
R. A. Bresee
Jack Murray
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
Moving Picture World February 5, 1916 calls the film The Debt of Honor. The film was copyrighted as A Debt of Honor. Variety noted that the moral of film "would seem to be that if a white man has an affair with an Indian woman, the offspring of such an alliance is apt to be a degenerate of the first rank."
