The Beckoning Flame
Cast & Crew
Charles Swickard
Henry Woodruff
Tsuru Aoki
Rhea Mitchell
J. Frank Burke
Louis Morrison
Film Details
Synopsis
On the eve of his departure from England to an Indian principality where he will be the deputy commissioner, Harry Dickson proposes to Elsa Arlington, but she gives no definite answer. In India, Harry sees Janira, the beautiful daughter of Ram Dass, a nobleman, and scales her garden wall to talk to her. Ram Dass, who wants Janira to wed the debauched Prince Chandra, whom she hates, reports Harry to the governor, who changes Harry's station. Chandra, on the wedding night, is stricken with apoplexy and dies. Janira, according to the custom of "suttee," is about to die on Chandra's funeral pyre, when Harry arrives, and after a fight, rescues her. Janira lives with him at the new station disguised as a boy servant, and falls in love with him, but when Elsa arrives with news that she loves Harry, Janira overhears him acknowledge his love. After Harry goes to meet the governor to respond to Ram Dass's accusation that he has Janira, she performs the "suttee" custom and dies in a fire to protect Harry's career.
Director
Charles Swickard
Cast
Henry Woodruff
Tsuru Aoki
Rhea Mitchell
J. Frank Burke
Louis Morrison
J. Barney Sherry
Roy Laidlaw
Joseph Dowling
Crew
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Notes
The copyright material deposited on January 16, 1916 indicates that the story is by Thomas H. Ince, whereas all other sources give C. Gardner Sullivan as the author. The film opened in New York on December 12, 1915. Some scenes in the film were shot in the Mojave Desert, according to contemporary news items.
