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The Closed Bible (1912)
Short | Drama, Short

The Closed Bible (1912)

Short | Drama, Short

Driven to desperate expedients by the necessity of providing adequate food and shelter for his wife and baby. John Manners is tempted to avail himself of the opportunity an open window affords. Inside the room another man equally desperate...See moreDriven to desperate expedients by the necessity of providing adequate food and shelter for his wife and baby. John Manners is tempted to avail himself of the opportunity an open window affords. Inside the room another man equally desperate has just take down his old family Bible and reads the old record of his birth, the date of his marriage, the birth of his now five-year-old son, the death of his wife a year before and then writes his intention to join his wife in the great beyond. Manners is startled by a pistol shot and he catches the falling body of the owner of the house, Randolph Werner. A policeman has followed Manner through the window and he is placed under arrest and sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment. His wife drops dead in the courtroom. The year-old babe of the dead woman claims the interest and sympathy of the court and the District Attorney takes the child to his home. Twenty years have nearly passed and fate throws Randolph Werner, Jr., across the path of the girl. During her adopted father's absence from home a love affair soon matures and the girl presents young Randolph to her father as a suitor for her hand. The District Attorney of twenty years back, now Judge Karthy, at once remembers the boy's father and refuses his consent to the marriage. He refuses to explain to the girl, but tells the boy that he may not marry Mabel because twenty years before he convicted her father of murdering the boy's father. Young Werner realizes the horror of the situation and also the wisdom of keeping Mabel in ignorance that she is an adopted daughter and resolves to give her up, but love is too strong, and a week later the judge reads with sinking heart a note from Mabel that as he had given her no good reason for not marrying Werner she had eloped. That very day the prison doors opened and released her father. At the moment Judge Karthy is facing death at the hand of the father the daughter is inscribing her name on the old dusty Bible of the Werner family, which has not been opened for twenty years. As her husband turns the pages he comes across the entry made by his father at the moment of death. Taking the "Book of Books" with them they fly to the judge's home and arrive in the nick of time to save two lives and themselves a lifetime of regret. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Herbert Prior John Manners John Manners See fewer	Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)
Mabel Trunnelle Mabel Manners - John's Daughter Mabel Manners - John's Daughter See fewer	The Master Passion (1917)
George Loane Tucker The Convict's Daughter's Husband (as George Tucker) The Convict's Daughter's Husband (as George Tucker) See fewer	The Miracle Man (1919)
Anita Hendrie Mrs. John Manners Mrs. John Manners See fewer	And a Little Child Shall Lead Them (1909)
Paul Scardon Judge Karthy - Former District Attorney Judge Karthy - Former District Attorney See fewer	Partners of the Night (1920)

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