The Great Ruby
Cast & Crew
Barry O'neil
Beatrice Morgan
Octavia Handworth
Eleanor Barry
Frankie Mann
Jeanette Hackett
Film Details
Synopsis
In a prologue, the greatest ruby in the world is stolen from Prince Kassim's great-grandfather's bride by a marauding Rajah. Two generations after the English conquer India, the ruby is offered for sale through wealthy London jeweler, Sir John Garnett. In the main story, Sir John employs detective James Brett to investigate the numerous jewel thefts from his wife, who actually hides the jewels while sleepwalking. After Longman, who heads the Diamond Gang with his lover, Countess Mirtza Charkoff, acquires the ruby by posing as a bargaining agent of the czar, he hides it in the countess' chocolate box. Lady Garnett takes the box while sleeping, and later it is mistakenly packed into the belongings of Captain Dalrymple, an army balloonist. The countess, who loves Prince Kassim, arranges for the prince to get the ruby after Longman recovers it, but Brett chases Longman and the prince to Dalrymple's balloon. Longman is thrown out and killed, and later, the prince is mortally wounded during a horse race. Lady Garnett recovers the jewel, and taking pity on the countess, prevents her arrest.
Director
Barry O'neil
Cast
Beatrice Morgan
Octavia Handworth
Eleanor Barry
Frankie Mann
Jeanette Hackett
Miss Nordine
George Soule Spencer
Peter Lang
Chauncey Keim
Walter Hitchcock
Ferdinand Tidmarsh
Howard M. Mitchell
Charles Brandt
James Farrell
Douglas Sibole
Richard Wangemann
William H. Turner
George S. Trimble
Bernard Siegel
Alan Quinn
Clarence Jay Elmer
James Cassady
Walter Law
Ruth Bryan
George Clark
Edith Ritchie
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Notes
The London production was a Drury Lane melodrama. It was produced in New York by Augustin Daly and opened February 9, 1899. Beatrice Morgan was in the New York production. According to a news item appearing at the beginning of the film's production, Josephine Parks, Mildred Gregory and Percy Winter were in the cast.
