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The Tenth Commandment (1914)
Short | 30 min | Short, Drama

The Tenth Commandment (1914)

Short | 30 min | Short, Drama

The action of the play relates the conditions arising in the home of an ambitious doctor which caused his wife to leave him. She was not bad, she was just selfish and demanded more attention from her husband than he could conscientiously ...See moreThe action of the play relates the conditions arising in the home of an ambitious doctor which caused his wife to leave him. She was not bad, she was just selfish and demanded more attention from her husband than he could conscientiously give. The wife also believed that she had reason to be jealous of the nurse the doctor employed. True, this nurse loved the young doctor, but aside from the interest she aroused because of her intelligent and efficient work, the doctor paid little attention to her. The final separation between the doctor and his wife involved another man: Brown, who had whispered things into the wife's ear that made her unhappy and dissatisfied. Brown coveted the wife for himself, but all he managed to do was compromise the wife's name sufficiently to turn her husband's heart against her when the baby came. She had returned to her mother. Time came when the young doctor received a 'phone call to attend a little girl who was shot accidentally. This child was his own, though he never discovered it until he arrived at the hotel and met his wife face-to-face. And as fate would have it Brown was there, too. However, at the urgings of the nurse, the doctor performed the operation, believing the child was not his but Brown's. During the operation a fire breaks out in the hotel. The doctor and nurse must complete the operation. When all is done the nurse lies dying on the lawn outside, a victim of loyalty, and the doctor understands aright. The wife has learned her lesson, while Brown has paid for his villainy with his life. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
William E. Shay The Doctor The Doctor See fewer	Robespierre (1913)
Ruth Donnelly The Doctor's Wife The Doctor's Wife See fewer	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Hobart Henley The Wife's Brother The Wife's Brother See fewer	Society Snobs (1921)
Violet Mersereau The Doctor's Nurse The Doctor's Nurse See fewer	Together (1918)
William Welsh Brown - the Drifter Brown - the Drifter See fewer	The Bull's Eye (1917)
Katherine Lee The Child The Child See fewer	The Bludgeon (1915)
Mrs. Allen Walker The Wife's Mother The Wife's Mother See fewer	The Clemenceau Case (1915)