The Prodigal Wife (1912)
The Prodigal Wife (1912)
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA
Released: 13 November 1912 (USA)
With:
Darwin Karr, Blanche Cornwall
Plot:
Mrs. James Clements moves in society. Her husband indulges her extravagances until she demands $500.00. He gives her the money, but she notices that he does so under silent protest. This...
Plot:
Mrs. James Clements moves in society. Her husband indulges her extravagances until she demands $500.00. He gives her the money, but she notices that he does so under silent protest. This makes her think. Her thoughts are thrown on the screen. She sees her stockbroker husband on the verge of bankruptcy through her own extravagance. In a last attempt to save himself he plays the cotton market and is ruined. He commits suicide in order that his wife may be protected with his heavy life insurance. He leaves a letter telling her that her extravagance has ruined him. When she realizes that his blood is on her hands she is overcome with remorse and loses her reason, dying a raving maniac in an insane asylum. Mrs. Clements shakes off this nightmare and with a sigh of relief resolves to change her mode of life.