The Miracle of Life


1915

Film Details

Release Date
Oct 21, 1915
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
American Film Co.
Distribution Company
Mutual Film Corp.; A Mutual Masterpicture
Country
United States

Synopsis

When a young bride, newly entered into society, discovers she is pregnant, she consults an old friend on the most effective means of abortion. The friend gives her a potent drug, and that night the woman locks herself in her room, presses the potion bottle to her lips, falls across her bed and begins to dream. In her dream, her husband finds out about her abortion and demands a divorce. Years pass and the woman, now decrepit and alone, is visited by the ghost of her "Child-That-Might-Have-Been." The ghost takes her on a spiritual journey where she sees her husband, who is remarried and happy with his own family, hundreds of smiling babies wrapped in flowers in Babyland, and finally her own death and damnation. At her demise, she wakes from her nightmare, joyful to find the drug untouched, and rushes to tell her husband about her impending motherhood.

Film Details

Release Date
Oct 21, 1915
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
American Film Co.
Distribution Company
Mutual Film Corp.; A Mutual Masterpicture
Country
United States

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Notes

One review refers to this film as The Miracle of Life, or the Divinity of Motherhood.