The Wolf Man


1915

Brief Synopsis

Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula. Mole kills the chemist, and he and Grinde frame an explosion to conceal the crime. After David refuses to sell the formula, Grinde and Mole lock him and his sweetheart in a vault with poisonous gas. Grinde then tries to kill Mole, who knows too much, and take over the firm from his elderly partner at a directors' meeting.

Film Details

Release Date
Sep 9, 1915
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Reliance Motion Picture Corp.
Distribution Company
Mutual Film Corp.; A Mutual Masterpicture
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
4 reels

Synopsis

After years of experimentation, Benjamin Lord, an old lame inventor, perfects a pottery glaze that promises to revolutionize the industry and make him wealthy. After Lord's grandson David leaves a sample with Hilbert Grinde, the ambitious and unscrupulous junior partner of a pottery works, Grinde orders his chemist, Timothy Mole, to procure the formula so that Grinde can gain control of the company. Mole takes part of the formula from Lord's laboratory and kills Lord during a struggle. Grinde arrives, and to hide the crime, Mole and he arrange a chemical explosion that destroys the laboratory. After David and his sweetheart Mary perfect the formula, Grinde and Mole attempt to buy it, but David refuses them. They lock David and Mary in a concrete vault and pour chlorine gas inside. Grinde then attacks Mole, leaving him for dead, and steals the formula book. As Grinde is taking control of a stockholders' meeting, Mole, bloodied and bruised, interrupts and confesses. Grinde and Mole go to prison, and David, after he and Mary are rescued, becomes president of the pottery works.

Film Details

Release Date
Sep 9, 1915
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Reliance Motion Picture Corp.
Distribution Company
Mutual Film Corp.; A Mutual Masterpicture
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
4 reels

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