Restless Souls
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Robert Ensminger
Director
Earle Williams
James Parkington
Francelia Billington
Lida Parkington
Arthur Hoyt
Edgar Swetson
Martha Mattox
Mrs. Fortescue
Nick Cogley
Uncle Ben
Film Details
Release Date
May
28,
1922
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Vitagraph Co. of America
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Playing Dead," by Richard Harding Davis in Metropolitan Magazine (Mar 1915).
Synopsis
James Parkington, finding that Lida, his wife, is more absorbed in Swetson, a neosymbolist lecturer, than she is in him, resolves to feign a suicide to secure her happiness. Although Parkington has willed his estate to Lida, Maria Fortescue, his aunt, lays claim to the estate upon his "death." Learning that Maria has inherited the estate, Swetson turns his attentions to her. Parkington, eager to know the results of his scheme, comes out of seclusion in disguise and visits the home, where he is recognized by his dog. He overhears a discussion of a second will, restores the original will, and, when discovered by Maria and Swetson, orders them from the house. Swetson reveals that he is married to Maria, and Parkington and Lida are reconciled.
Director
Robert Ensminger
Director
Cast
Earle Williams
James Parkington
Francelia Billington
Lida Parkington
Arthur Hoyt
Edgar Swetson
Martha Mattox
Mrs. Fortescue
Nick Cogley
Uncle Ben
Crew
Film Details
Release Date
May
28,
1922
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Vitagraph Co. of America
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Playing Dead," by Richard Harding Davis in Metropolitan Magazine (Mar 1915).
