Name: My Official Wife
Released: 1914
Cast: Clara Kimball Young, Harry T. Morey, Earle Williams, L. Roger Lytton, Rose E. Tapley

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Aug 1914

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Vitagraph Co. of America

Distribution Company

Broadway Star Features Co.; General Film Co.; Special Features Dept.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel My Offical Wife by Richard Henry Savage (New York, 1891).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.33 : 1

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

Helene Marie, a nihilist, persuades American Arthur Bainbridge Lennox to allow her to assume the role of his wife so that she can cross the Russian border. Although Lennox is already married and is deeply shocked by Helene's political views, he falls in love with her. He is unaware of the fact that while they are sharing a hotel room, she has been conspiring with her comrades to assassinate the Czar. Although Lennox discovers Helene in the arms of her lover, Sacha Weletsky, an officer of the Royal Guard, he still accompanies her to the Grand Ball. Later, however, when Lennox learns that she plans to kill the Czar during the dance, he drugs her and carries her back to their hotel. When she awakens, Helene drugs Lennox, and accompanied by Sacha, she escapes on a yacht. The couple is then pursued by the secret police, who torpedo their vessel. Later, the corpses of Sacha and Helene, locked in an embrace, float to the surface of the water.