Name: Driftwood
Released: 1916
Cast: Vera Michelena, Clarissa Selwynne, Dora Heritage, Harry Spingler, Leslie Stowe

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Mar 1916

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Ocean Film Corp.

Distribution Company

Raver Film Corp.; State Rights

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play Driftwood by Owen Davis (production undetermined).

Synopsis

When Lawrence Grove crashes his car and is knocked unconscious for several days, his fiancée Helen Warner thinks that he has deserted her. In need of money, she finds work as a secretary for James Wayne and, unaware that he is married to her sister Alice, she gives in to his advances. Then, after two years of searching, Lawrence finds Helen and proposes once again. Helen says that she is unworthy of him, however, since she is having an affair with another man, whom Lawrence vows to kill should he ever find him. Helen and James then discover that they are in-laws, after which James urges her to marry Lawrence, and even threatens to reveal his identity to him if she refuses, thereby guaranteeing his own death. Thinking of Alice's happiness, and still in love with Lawrence, Helen finally agrees to marry him.