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The Judgment of Men (1915)
Short | Short, Drama
A man rides by a beautifully and carefully tended garden. He reaches over the wall and picks a flower. Soon it withers in the sun. Its color fades and its fragrance is gone. He tosses it away. In the little room made sacred by her love The...See moreA man rides by a beautifully and carefully tended garden. He reaches over the wall and picks a flower. Soon it withers in the sun. Its color fades and its fragrance is gone. He tosses it away. In the little room made sacred by her love The Girl rocked the baby and listened for the footstep of The Man, that never came. It was almost impossible to believe that she had been deserted, but now there could no longer be any doubt. She took her baby and walked to her father's home. He opened it and told her to be gone. So she went to the bridge and jumped off with her baby. Men came in boats and dragged her from the river, still clinging to the little, cold, dead baby. Men took her and threw her into prison. A man arraigned her with the righteous and scathing invective. Twelve men sat in judgment upon her. And a man pronounced the sentence: "For the term of your natural life." It was ten years since the doors of the prison closed behind her and Young Mary had become almost Old Mary. For ten years she had sat alone in her cell as the dark came on, and visions of the past came upon the walls in panoramic review. Always there was the face of her baby as it smiled in its cradle and the poor, starved mother-heart wondered if she would ever see or hear or touch a child again. For years she had been a trustee. The longing for freedom long since died, if, indeed, she ever had it after she entered the prison. But as she passed through the outer hall one day the door stood open, and there was a cloak and bonnet on the rack. She stood irresolute for a moment, and then she walked out. She hurried along the road and mechanically felt in the pocket of the cloak. A small purse with a few coins. They meant nothing to her. She had not seen any money for years. Out from a cottage came a little five-year-old girl; Mary knelt in the road and she took the baby into her arms. And then they took hands and walked away together. They come upon one of those little shops that one often sees in the border country. In the cob-webbed window, among the miscellany, were some shop-worn toys and the child stopped to look at them. Mary counted the coins in her purse and they hurried inside. When they came out Mary carried the bundle and the baby ran along at her side. By this time Mary's escape had been discovered and men with guns set out from the prison to find her. Mary and the little girl found a glade in the woods among the thick carpets and tapestries of the vines and mosses and there was a flat rock that made a splendid table. There Mary set the table and arranged the toys, and they played with them. The grim keepers and the frantic mother searched the woods. At last they found her. Mary was the convict again. She had had her little happy day and she was willing to go back to the gray walls. They took her back, and unkindly. The great iron doors closed behind her for the last time. And The Man, who happened to be riding by, sleek and well fed and prosperous, in his automobile, stopped his car and complimented the keepers on the recapture of a dangerous criminal. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Lucius Henderson
Writer
William Addison Lathrop (story)
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Updated Jun 4, 1915
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Jun 4, 1915 (United States)

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