The Bride of Hate
Cast & Crew
Walter Edwards
Frank Keenan
Margery Wilson
Jerome Storm
David M. Hartford
Elvira Weil
Film Details
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Synopsis
In the antebellum South, the respected Louisiana physician Dr. Dudley Duprez wins the beautiful slave Mercedes during a riverboat poker game on his way home from St. Louis. At his plantation, Duprez discovers that his beloved niece Rose has poisoned herself rather than face him after she had been seduced by the doctor's young friend Paul Crenshaw. Overcoming an urge to kill Crenshaw, Duprez instead trains Mercedes, who supposedly has only a trace of Negro blood, to impersonate a wealthy Spanish girl and win Crenshaw's affection, after threatening to send her to the cotton fields if she does not comply. After the wedding, Duprez announces to the guests that because Crenshaw betrayed Rose, Duprez tricked him into marrying a "nigger." Crenshaw is ostracized and later is shot attempting to evade a yellow fever quarantine. After a dying overseer from Mercedes' plantation confesses that Mercedes is really the legitimate daughter of Duprez' son and an aristocratic Spanish girl, whose father, objecting to her marrying an American, had her enslaved, Duprez makes amends and Mercedes forgives him.
Director
Walter Edwards
Cast
Frank Keenan
Margery Wilson
Jerome Storm
David M. Hartford
Elvira Weil
Mrs. J. Hunt
J. P. Lockney
Nona Thomas
Jack Gilbert
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
The working title of this film was His Slave. It was re-issued by Tri-Stone Pictures in 1922 under the title Wanted for Murder, Or Bride of Hate. It was copyrighted by Tri-Stone Pictures under the title The Bride of Hate; June 12, 1924; LP20306.
