Conscience
Cast & Crew
Stuart Paton
William Welsh
Allen J. Holubar
Curtis Benton
Frances Nelson
William Bailey
Film Details
Synopsis
Inventor George Grant and his partner, financier John Benson, accept an offer of $200,000 for the rights to an invention. After Grant breaks up a fight in a bar between drunken Dave Wilson and an old man reprimanding him, Dave is told by his mother to apologize to Grant. He meets Benson, who witnessed the fight, outside Grant's apartment and tells him his purpose, but during Dave's conversation with Grant, Grant suddenly drops dead. The police find Dave hiding, and after a pistol is found outside and Benson tells them about the fight but says he knew nothing about Dave's apology, Dave is convicted of murder and electrocuted. Some time later, criminologist James Sprague talks with a prison warden who is glad that capital punishment has been abolished. Because the warden thinks Dave was innocent, Sprague investigates and gradually gets Benson, now a nervous wreck, to confess. Benson then goes to prison rather than to the electric chair.
Director
Stuart Paton
Cast
William Welsh
Allen J. Holubar
Curtis Benton
Frances Nelson
William Bailey
Howard Crampton
Joseph W. Girard
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Notes
Some scenes in this film were shot at Sing Sing prison, NY. Although the setting of the film is not given, only six states had abolished capital punishment by 1915, and the portion of the film in which the characters reflect on its abolishment was probably hypothetical.
