Name: Threads of Destiny
Released: 1914
Cast: Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, Bernard Siegel, Jack Clifford, Margaret Risser, William Cahill

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Oct 21, 1914

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Lubin Mfg Co.

Distribution Company

General Film Co.; Special Features Dept

Country

United States

Synopsis

Ivan Mussak of the Russian secret police massacres thousands of Jews and exiles many more. Everyone in Isaac Gruenstein's family is killed except himself and his baby daughter Miriam. Isaac is exiled to Siberia, but Miriam becomes Mussak's ward and is reared in a convent. Eighteen years later, Isaac is befriended by fellow exile Rachel Shapiro who is able to escape carrying a note written by Isaac to Miriam shortly before his death. Through chance, Rachel finds that Miriam has become Mussak's mistress, but when Miriam reads Isaac's warning about Mussak in the note, she decides to accompany Rachel and her new husband, Alexis Mayok, to America. Miriam marries Fedor Tomspky, then Mussak comes to the United States on a mission and stays with Fedor who turns out to be his cousin. Mussak wants Miriam to go away with him, but in the end, he is killed by the loyal community of Russian Jews who fear that Mussak will continue his evil work in America.