The Fool
Cast & Crew
Harry Millarde
Edmund Lowe
Raymond Bloomer
Henry Sedley
Paul Panzer
A. J. Herbert
Film Details
Synopsis
Daniel Gilchrist, an assistant rector in a fashionable church, preaches a sermon in which he exhorts his congregation to emulate the life of Christ by giving up worldy possessions in order to find spiritual happiness. Because of this radical point of view, Gilchrist is dismissed from his post and deserted by his fiancée, Clare, who soon marries Jerry Goodkind, the son of a millionaire. Daniel starts a mission, and there Clare, who has been badly hurt by the open and callous infidelity of her husband, comes to do volunteer work. Jerry accuses Clare of infidelity, and she comes to Daniel to seek solace; Daniel then bids her return to her husband and find solace through service to Christ. A distraught miner, Henning, who believes that Daniel seduced his wife, incites a mob to burn the mission; Daniel is beaten by the mob, whose fury abates only when Pearl, Hennig's wife, confesses that the man who seduced her was Jerry Goodkind. A small child, crippled since birth, sees Daniel lying on the ground, bleeding from the fury of the mob's unthinking blows, and haltingly walks to him; the crowd declares that it has seen a miracle. Jerry is emotionally shaken by the events, and his wealthy father comes to see that a truly Christian life is the only path to happiness on this earth.
Director
Harry Millarde
Cast
Edmund Lowe
Raymond Bloomer
Henry Sedley
Paul Panzer
A. J. Herbert
Downing Clarke
George Lessey
Blanche Craig
Fred C. Jones
Rose Blossom
Anne Dale
Helena D'algy
Mary Thurman
Lucille Lee Stewart
Brenda Bond
Marie Shaffer
Joseph Burke
Crew
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