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The Madcap
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Burton L. King
Cast: Marguerite Clayton [Ethel Brandon], Jack Conway [John], Harry Keenan [Tom]
New York Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Thomas H. Ince. / Released 27 August 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? James Brandon, sexton of Grace Church, and his daughter, Ethel, live together, the daughter being the organist of the church. The congregation, in appreciation of her services, offer to send her away to Boston to complete her musical education. She goes with a letter of introduction to Bishop Neal. The Bishop asks her to stay in his home until she can be located in a boarding school. She accepts the invitation and meets his son, also John’s college chum, Aaron Bront. At a fraternity gathering Bront insults Ethel, and John fights with him. As the result of this all dances are forbidden. John and Ethel are married secretly. The college boys attempt to give a Halloween dance in the dormitory, but are discovered on account of Bront sending a letter to the president of the college. Ethel, the only one of the girls who succeeds in gaining the dormitory, is disgraced and expelled from the school. The Bishop and John, who is studying for the ministry, refuse to hear explanation and she returns home. The war breaks out and John joins the Northern army and is sent as a spy into the enemy’s country. He is discovered and wounded. He finds his way to Grace Church, where he hides. Ethel discovers him, is touched by the remorse of his treatment of her and his present plight and gives him a horse and assists him to escape.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 December 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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