His Divorced Wife


1919

Film Details

Release Date
Oct 26, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Distribution Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "An Altar on Little Thunder" by Elmore Elliott Peake in Harper's Monthly (Feb 1912).

Synopsis

In an Eastern Kentucky mountain town, illiterate Asa Whipple, the village blacksmith, marries beautiful Nance Haws over the objections of her father. A former aristocrat who was financially ruined, Jethro Haws wanted Nance to marry lawyer Rufus Couch. After Sandy Orr, an escaped convict employed by the kind-hearted Asa, kills Luke Andrews for implying that Nance's expected child is Couch's, Asa takes the blame. He is convicted by Couch, now district attorney, who destroyed the confession Orr left before running away. In prison Asa meets Orr again and they prove Asa's innocence, but when he returns, Asa finds that Nance has divorced him and is about to marry the now wealthy Couch for the sake of her child's education. Asa decides to leave, but Couch engages him in a duel and shoots him in the back before his own death after his horse throws him down a cliff. Asa and Nance now start their marriage anew.

Film Details

Release Date
Oct 26, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Distribution Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "An Altar on Little Thunder" by Elmore Elliott Peake in Harper's Monthly (Feb 1912).

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