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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Discard
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Lawrence Windom (Lawrence C. Windom)
Cast: Virginia Hammond [Alys Wynne], Ernest Maupain [‘Python’ Grant], Harry Beaumont [Keith Bourne], Betty Brown [Doris Wynne], Charles J. Stine [J.F. Smike], Patrick Calhoun [Duc de Besvrai], Gertrude Glover [Ysabel Maxwell]
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated. / Scenario by Charles Michelson. Cinematography by Jackson J. Rose (Jackson Rose). / © 4 March 1916 by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company [LP7767]. Released 28 February 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Doris Wynne, at boarding school in France, is hardly acquainted with her mother, most of the dealings between them handled by a firm of lawyers. So when she falls in love with the brother of a schoolmate, she obtains her mother’s consent through the attorneys. Alys Wynne’s reasons for seeing so little of her daughter are that she is the companion in crime of “Python” Grant, international swindler. Having ruined a young nobleman and causing him to commit suicide, the pair escape to America. Doris, the daughter, in the meantime, is happily married to Keith Bourne, a young American. An uncle leaves him a million dollars and they decide to return to the United States. Grant and Alys discover Keith and cultivate him. That he is the husband of Doris is unknown to the mother, who is still young and beautiful herself. Grant pretends to abuse his wife and Keith comforts her. A suit for alienation of affection is the result. Bourne settles for $40,000 rather than have his young wife misunderstand him. But the swindlers try the “Follow-up” and when Keith refuses to be led further they telephone his wife and tell her the story. Through the attorneys she asks her mother to come to her. Alys goes and hears the story. She is thunderstruck to learn that her victim is the husband of her daughter. She advises the younger woman to believe in her husband and disappears. She tells the police where to find “Python” Grant and next day the happy couple read in the paper that the woman accomplice of the swindler was found dead. It means nothing to them. // Additional synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1046.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 11 November 2022.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1046; Tarbox-Lost p. 257 : Website-IMDb.
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