The Key to Yesterday
Cast & Crew
J. Francis Dillon
Carlyle Blackwell
Edna Mayo
Gypsy Abbott
George Brunton
J. Francis Dillon
Film Details
Synopsis
Frederick Marston, an unhappily married Parisian artist, is unable to paint after he is stabbed in the right palm by a jealous model. He then travels to the United States where he is assaulted by robbers and loses his memory. Assuming the name of Robert Anglo-Saxon, he becomes the protégé of Steel, a rich American,and then wins the love of Duska Filson, a socialite. At a dinner party, Saxon meets Señor Roberto, who mistakes him for George Carter, a wounded, fugitive South American revolutionary whom Roberto had condemned to death. In order to ascertain his true identity, Marston goes to South America and consults with an American diplomat, who assures him that the revolutionary was wounded in the left hand. His visit to South America coincides with renewed civil strife and Saxon is wounded and sent to France. In Paris, Saxon uses a key, his only link to the past, in many doors until it finally unlocks his old studio. There he finds his students, and his father-in-law, who informs him that his wife is dying. With his memory restored, Marston rushes to his wife, where he finds Duska at the dead woman's side. Seeing his grief, Duska then leaves.
Director
J. Francis Dillon
Cast
Carlyle Blackwell
Edna Mayo
Gypsy Abbott
George Brunton
J. Francis Dillon
John Prescott
John Sheehan
Ollie Kirkby
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Notes
Contemporary sources cite this film as the first production of the Favorite Players Film Co. and the first release of Alliance Films.
