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The Man of Her Choice
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Francis Ford
Cast: Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, Harry Montague
[?] Powers Picture Plays or The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated? production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Powers]. / Produced by Pat Powers. Scenario by Grace Cunard, from a story by J.M. Barrie. / Released 7 August 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? In “The Man of Her Choice” the girl, the man and the servant are cast away upon an uninhabited island, yes, and the dog. The girl and the man are engaged by the Man, being just an ordinary lower-case man after all, thinks first of himself and his comfort. The servant finds edible berries and the man must have the largest portion because he is the master. The servant catches fish and the man must have the biggest one. In fact, the servant becomes a man and the man a servant, to his own comfort. The girl watches these things, little things, unnoticed in the whirl of civilized life, but bringing such a message in the waste of sand and sea. The servant, who has become a man, loves the girl and she knows. When they are rescued and she is in peril of returning again to the false standards for which stands the man who is servant, the girl decides she is woman and takes the man of her choice, the servant, who has become man.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 29 March 2020.
References: ClasIm-224 p. 43 : Website-IMDb.
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