Race Suicide
Cast & Crew
George W. Terwilliger
Ormi Hawley
Earl Metcalfe
Kempton Greene
Octavia Handworth
Herbert Fortier
Film Details
Synopsis
Following a prologue which shows that animals frequently desert their young, a jilted prehistoric suitor murders the child of the woman he loves. During the age of the Roman Empire, a soldier has a brief affair with a shepherdess, and long after he has left, she has their child. The shepherdess looks for the father, but returns brokenhearted after finding him with another woman, and then dies while saving her child from a poisonous snake. During the Elizabethan era, a wayward son seeks spiritual redemption through war, and is killed in battle. In modern times, a young, impoverished husband refuses to start a family, despite the pleadings of his wife. Then, when he finally starts earning enough money to consider children, his wife has an accident that makes it impossible for her to become pregnant.
Director
George W. Terwilliger
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Notes
Each of the principal cast members appeared in all of the vignettes. Although the Lubin Mfg. Co. is not mentioned in ads, reviews or news items, as having produced this film, evidence in the MPSD January 29, 1916 listing for actress Ormi Howley suggests this. In addition, most of the people connected with this film were employed by Lubin at the time, including Joseph W. Farnham, the distributor, and Ira M. Lowry, the copyright claimant, who was Lubin's general manager. The film had a trade showing in New York on January 21, 1916.
