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Up from the Depths
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Four reels
Directed by Paul Powell
Cast: Gladys Brockwell [Daire Vincent], Courtenay Foote [Judon Davids], Thomas Jefferson [Father White], William E. Lawrence [Lestrade], Mae Gaston [Alice]
Reliance Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [A Mutual Masterpicture]. / Scenario by Mary O’Connor, from the play Up from the Depths by Charles Battell Loomis and Robert Stodard. Assistant director, Roy Hiram Rice. / Released 17 June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Revivalist Davids persuades Daire Vincent to elope with him. Within the year, inspired by his associates to seek a held of greater grafting possibilities, he deserts her without having made her a wife, and goes to New York, where he meets with great success. Daire has a child, and after many failures, becomes a dance hall singer to support it. In New York she is approached by Davids’ confederates who ask her to help them in raiding the Mozart dive in which she works. She thus discovers Davids’ present whereabouts and activities, and, taking her child, confronts him. Davids’ young wife is dying, childless. The sight of his own son, whom he cannot claim, stirs him deeply and with a regenerating effect. The wife dies. Davids, insistently urged by the Purity League to do this, makes a raid on the Mozart. He is wounded. Father White, a slum worker, striving for Daire’s spiritual upliftment, hears her life’s story and intercedes with Davids to legitimatize the child. Davids and Daire go through a marriage ceremony. Later each is shown rising from the depth to a fuller and better knowledge of life.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 30 November 2023.
References: Tarbox-Lost p. 248 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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