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Her Alibi
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Jay Hunt
Cast: Elizabeth Burbridge (Betty Burbridge) [Marion Bailey], Frank Borzage [Joe Bailey], C.N. Mortensen (Claude N. Mortensen) [Jim Channing], Harry Keenan [Mr. Latimer]
New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [?] [Domino]? / Produced by Thomas H. Ince. From a screen story by Richard V. Spencer. / Released 20 May 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Joe Bailey and his sister Marion work for the same firm. Joe has a chum, Jim Channing, who gets Joe in debt and persuades him to embezzle some funds of the firm in order to meet a pressing debt. Joe is caught and arrested and sent to prison. Marion is discharged by the firm. She gets a position with another firm and marries Latimer, the general manager. Latimer is of a jealous disposition. Channing has lost his job and is hard up and in need of money. One day he meets Marion on the street and suspecting that her husband has not been told of Joe, he resolves to blackmail her. She gives him money to keep the secret. Later, wanted by the police, Channing writes a letter to Marion and tells her to meet him at a notorious road house to pay him some more money so that he can get out of town. Latimer’s suspicions are aroused as he catches Marion reading the letter. Under the plea of business at the office, he leaves his home and summons a taxi. He sees Marion leave in a taxi and follows. Meantime Joe Bailey has made a get-away and makes his way back toward the city to get help from his sister. The guards pursue him in the vicinity of the roadhouse where Channing is waiting to meet Marion. She goes to the roadhouse and meets Channing in a private room. Latimer follows and demands admittance. Believing Latimer is an officer, Channing opens fire on him and escapes through the window.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 22 May 1915, page ?] A two-reel number with a stock plot, handled in a fairly strong way. Elizabeth Burbridge and Frank Borzage play the parts of brother and sister, employed in the same office. Joe and a chum begin taking out fast girls. Joe gets badly into debt and is overseen robbing the safe. He is sent to prison and his sister loses her job. Later Joe escapes. His former chum tries to blackmail the sister, now married. The chum is taken for Joe and shot by pursuing officers. Joe is then carried away by his sister and her husband in an auto. This number makes an offering of about average interest.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 24 October 2022.
References: ClasIm-220 p. 40 : Website-IMDb.
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