A Suspicious Wife
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Alexander F. Frank
K. M. Turner
Justina Wayne
Dorothy Gwynn
Valerie Sheahan
Charles Perley
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Synopsis
A young woman attempting suicide by jumping from the Brooklyn Bridge is saved by a kindly doctor. While in the hospital recovering from her fall, however, she becomes addicted to narcotics, causing her to act irrationally. She is tried and convicted of attempted suicide but freed into the custody of the doctor and his wife. The girl falls in love with her benefactor, a fact which is reported to the wife by a neighbor. Using a dictagraph (wire recorder), the wife hears a conversation between her husband and the girl and realizes that her husband is blameless of any wrong-doing, but she orders the girl from their house. The girl returns and kills a woman, mistaking her for the doctor's wife and the wife is accused of the crime. She is saved finally by the work of K. M. Turner, the inventor of the dictagraph, who records the girl confessing to the murder.
Director
Alexander F. Frank
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This story was based on a true incident that happened in Freeport, Long Island, according to contemporary sources. The film was also known as The Suspicious Wife. This was the Twentieth Century Feature Film Co.'s first American film production.
