The Fugitive

Story

Synopsis

Margery Carew and her widowed sister, Anna Prentice, find work in a brokerage firm, James Gray, the junior partner, soon falls in love with Margery, while his boss, William Cleves, does his best to seduce Anna. In fighting off William's advances, Anna kills him, but Margery, hoping to protect Anna's child, takes the blame and then escapes to the West, after which she gets married and begins a new life. Following a lengthy search, the police manage to track her down, but Margery still refuses to save herself by telling the truth about the murder, even though Anna and her child died several years before in a car crash. Finally, however, because he still loves her and because he has been stricken by a deadly disease that will kill him in a few months, James confesses to the murder, thereby freeing Margery to return to her husband.

Director

Frederick Sullivan

Writers

Philip Lonergan

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

12 August 1916

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Florence La Badie

  Margery Carew

• 

  Ethyle Cooke

  Anna Prentice

• George Marlo

  James Gray

• Hector Dion

  William Cleves, a villain

• 

  J.H. Gilmour

• Samuel N. Niblack

• 

  Robert Vaughn

• 

  Dorothy Benham

• Joseph Phillips