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To Have and To Lose
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Isabel Rea [the wife], Frank Newberg (Frank Newburg) [the husband], Walter Woodin [the friend], Franklin Ritchie [the lone prospector], [?] Gretchen Hartman?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 22 April 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Lost in the brush and looking for water, the husband becomes separated from his young wife and friend. The latter, going to look for him, also loses his bearings after finding the husband’s coat. Left alone, the girl wanders, frenzied, and is found by a lone prospector, who takes her to his cabin and, on learning her story, sets out to seek her husband. He meets two prospectors, who tell him that they have recently buried a dead man whom they found at the foot of a cliff. They have his coat, which the girl recognizes as her husband’s. Still she cannot believe that he is dead. Unwillingly the prospector goes again to seek him, for he has learned to love the girl and wishes her husband dead. After finding him, he is sorely tempted to let the exhausted man die, but his better nature triumphs, and for her sake he saves him.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 October 2023.
References: Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-IMDb.
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