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  • The Lighted Candle (1912)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Lighted Candle (1912)
Short | Short, Drama
John Bennet is engaged in the business of manufacturing explosives. He needs more money to extend his business and he seeks financial aid of Wm. Stone. Mr. Stone advances him the required amount, but exacts a bill of sale of the business ...See moreJohn Bennet is engaged in the business of manufacturing explosives. He needs more money to extend his business and he seeks financial aid of Wm. Stone. Mr. Stone advances him the required amount, but exacts a bill of sale of the business in case of the non-payment of the loan. John Bennet has a niece about five years old, with whom Mr. Stone and his daughter Edith are fascinated. Through this friendship for the child a stronger friendship is springing up between John and Edith. When the note is due, John finds himself unable to pay the full amount and approaches Mr. Stone for an extension of time. This is refused. John tells his sister and she sacrifices the family jewels for the raising of the money. John at once proceeds to the office of the financier, Mr. Stone, and pays this money and receives a receipt. The clerk credits the money to the wrong account. John takes his receipt back to his own office, where his little niece is playing on the floor with a doll given to her by Edith Stone. Bennet opens his safe and taking out his receipt file, opens it and places the receipt just obtained in the box, but his attention is distracted at this moment by the foreman of his factory, who comes in and speaks to him and a draft from the window blows the receipt out of the box and it falls on the floor, where his little niece is playing. She takes up the receipt and uses it for a curl paper for her doll's hair. John having finished talking to the foreman, turns, locks the box and puts it back in the safe, knowing nothing of the loss of the receipt. John then notices his little niece playing with the doll, and knowing she obtained this doll from Edith, he takes it from her and throws it up on top of the safe and tells the child to go home, not wishing her to receive any presents from either Mr. Stone or his family. Later Mr. Stone brings the sheriff to the factory to take possession on account of the non-payment of the note. John at once claims that he has paid the money, goes to the safe, gets out the box to show them the receipt, and of course he cannot find it, with the result that the law compels him to give up his business. John determines that another man shall not profit by the foreclosure. He lights a candle and places it in the magazine room. He returns to his home to be told by his sister that Edith Stone has called upon his little niece, found her crying because of the loss of her doll, and learning that it had been left at the office of the powder mill, volunteers to go back with her and get it, and accompanied by Mr. Stone, who was with Edith, they do so. John realizes the peril of his little niece and also realizes that it will mean not only Stone's death, but also Edith's. He reaches the factory just as the wick is burning down to the explosive, while in the office his little niece, laughingly undoing her doll's curl papers, finds and shows to Edith and Stone a paper which they realize is the lost receipt. John stumbles in from the magazine room to be met by the news of the recovery of the receipt and Stone's apology and reparation for the error of his careless clerk. Edith also offers reparation of a still more gratifying nature to the happy John. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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David Miles
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Updated Mar 31, 1912
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Mar 31, 1912 (United States)

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Herbert Prior
John Bennett - the Owner of the Powder Mill John Bennett - the Owner of the Powder Mill   See fewer
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Mabel Trunnelle
Edith Stone - the Money Lender's Daughter Edith Stone - the Money Lender's Daughter   See fewer
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Jack Brammall
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