Name: The Blindness of Virtue
Genre: Adaptation
Released: 1915
Cast: Bryant Washburn, Edna Mayo, Thomas Maclarnie, George Le Guere, Betty Brown

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Adaptation

Release Date

Jul 19, 1915

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Essanay Film Mfg Co.

Distribution Company

General Film Co.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Blindness of Virtue by Cosmo Hamilton (London, 1908) and his play of the same name (London, 29 Jan 1912).

Synopsis

When the rowdy Archibald Graham is expelled from Eton, his misunderstanding father sends him to live at the country vicarage of his boyhood friend, the Rev. Harry Pemberton. Pemberton tutors Archie in law, while Pemberton's daughter Effie, who has not been instructed about sex, becomes Archie's constant companion. Archie's dissolute friend, Edward Winstanley, visits and convinces Mary Ann, a naïve washwoman's daughter, to join him in London by appealing to her longing for beautiful clothes. After Archie locates them at a disreputable hotel and sends the no longer naïve girl home, her mother complains to Pemberton. Mrs. Pemberton evades telling Effie the facts of life, and later, when Effie innocently comes to Archie's room clad only in her kimono, Pemberton enters and accuses Archie, who was comforting her, of impropriety. As Archie prepares to leave, Effie explains to her mother, who then enlightens the young girl about sexual matters. With Pemberton's consent, Effie and Archie then decide to marry.