Name: The Paliser Case
Released: 1920
Cast: Pauline Frederick, Albert Roscoe, James Neil, Hazel Brennan, Kate Lester

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Feb 1920

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Goldwyn Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

Goldwyn Distributing Corp.

Country

United States

Synopsis

Cassy Cara, a struggling young singer and daughter of an old, crippled Portuguese violinist, is in love with Keith Lennox, an upstanding young man who is engaged to socialite Margaret Austen. Margaret's mother wishes her to wed the wealthy but unscrupulous Monty Paliser and succeeds in breaking her daughter's engagement by reporting that she had witnessed Cassy emerging from Lennox's apartment. However, Paliser admires Cassy, who, to relieve her father's financial distress, agrees to marry the scoundrel. The victim of a mock ceremony, Cassy discovers Paliser's treachery too late and leaves him in a rage, going directly to Lennox with her story. She plans to kill Paliser that night at the opera, while, unknown to her, Lennox has formulated a similar plan to which he alludes at his club. That night, Paliser is stabbed to death, and Lennox arrested for the crime. To shield him, Cassy confesses to the crime, but Lennox denies her statement. Before either can be prosecuted, Cassy's father admits that he stabbed Paliser and then dies of a heart attack, thus clearing both lovers.