Rose O' Paradise
Cast & Crew
James Young
Bessie Barriscale
Howard Hickman
David M. Hartford
Norman Kerry
Edythe Chapman
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Synopsis
After his wife's death, Thomas Singleton suffers a temporary breakdown and is committed to an asylum by his scheming half brother, Jordon Morse. Although Jordon has been appointed the guardian of Thomas' little daughter Virginia, he shuns the responsibility, placing the girl in the care of an old mammy and planning to retrieve her only on her eighteenth birthday, when she comes into possession of her mother's fortune. Sixteen years pass. Thomas, deeply worried about his daughter's well-being, escapes the asylum, and after sending Virginia to live with a poor but kindly cobbler named Lafe Grandoken, he dies. Virginia's chance meeting with millionaire Theodore King leads to romance, and her happiness is complete until Morse, anxious to secure her money, hires Maudlin Bates to kill Theodore. When Bates, plotting to double-cross Morse, threatens Lafe, Morse enters and shoots the gunman, but Lafe is accused. Morse imprisons Virginia, but she escapes in time to free Lafe and bring the villain to justice.
Director
James Young
Cast
Bessie Barriscale
Howard Hickman
David M. Hartford
Norman Kerry
Edythe Chapman
William Delmar
Lucille Young
Arthur Allardt
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Notes
The release dates listed in reviews varied. Oscar Apfel was originally scheduled to direct this film, which was to be the first film of the Bessie Barriscale Feature Co.
