The Million Dollar Mystery is a 23-chapter film serial, released in 1914, directed by Howell Hansel, and starring Florence La Badie and James Cruze.
Synopsis
A prologue for The Million Dollar Mystery introduced the characters and groups. After the opening title card shows "hundreds of hands" grasping for the money and then a shot of the check for $10,000 the solver of the mystery is shown prior to the beginning of the first reel. Baby Florence is left at a boarding school with a note and half a bracelet instructing that her father will come to take her back upon her eighteenth birthday. Hargreaves, here played by Alfred Norton, is chased by the Black Hundred, but he receives a note and money before attempting to escape by balloon on the top of a building. The balloon is shot down and the first chapter ends.
, 12minutes Réalisé parLucius Henderson OrigineEtats-Unis GenresHorreur ActeursJames Cruze, Florence La Badie, Marie Eline, Marguerite Snow, Harry Benham, Jane Gail Note59% Le Dr Jekyll aux cheveux blancs s'est secrètement enfermé dans son laboratoire, s'administrant une fiole de formule. Il s'affale sur sa chaise, la tête sur sa poitrine. Alors que le médicament fait lentement effet, une bête aux cheveux noirs, aux griffes et aux deux grands crocs apparaît sur la chaise. Après une utilisation répétée, l'alter ego maléfique de Jekyll émerge à volonté, faisant tomber une petite fille dans la rue et allant jusqu'à assassiner le père de sa petite amie (le pasteur local). La personnalité maléfique retourne en courant au laboratoire pour découvrir que l'antidote est terminé et qu'il devra rester à jamais M. Hyde. Un policier costaud enfonce la porte de Jekyll avec une hache pour trouver le gentil docteur mort d'avoir bu du poison.
Pat Moran, the foreman of a construction gang, worked hard to save up enough money to pay for the passage of his wife and daughter to their new home in America. On the day of their arrival, he heads to the pier to greet them and becomes involved in a serious accident. He is injured and taken unconscious to the hospital as an unidentified patient. His wife and daughter know nothing of what has befallen him and struggle to live in the city. The daughter gets a position in a sweatshop, and her eyesight deteriorates until she is unable to work anymore. Now blind, she resorts to playing the violin for money while her mother becomes a beggar.
The story is of an English manufacturing town in which Henry Little, a workman and inventor, is persecuted by trades unions, jealous because he was better trained than his fellows. Squire Raby, Little's uncle, is a forcible character, and a pleasant love story offsets the labor troubles. A purpose of the novel was to expose, without censure, the errors of early trades unions.