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Ghosts (1916)
A WONDERFUL MUTUAL MASTERPICTURE
GHOSTS
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PLAYS OF THE AGE AN INTENSELY DRAMATIC SCENE IN "GHOSTS"
PHOTOPLAY THEATRE
GHOSTS Alving, a dissolute rake, sies of his excesses, leaving a son Oswald, who grows up into a young man of excellent habits and morals. Oswald's mother has been warned by the family physician that the son might inherit the vices of the father, but she ignores the advice. As Oswald merges into manhood, however, he begins to show signs of being mentally unbalanced. In the mean time, his mother, who wants to see her boy marry early, arranges a match with a young girl with whom he is in love. The physician arrives at the church in time to prevent the marriage, disclosing the fact that Oswald and the girl are brother and sister. The boy is so overcome when he learns the truth that he plunges into dissipation, as the taint of insanity becomes more apparent. Finally, realizing he cannot escape the "clutching hand of heredity," he dies of poison administered by his own hand. CAST
MUTUAL MASTER PICTURES
GHOSTS Is a stirring plea for purity of thought and deed. This vivid Ibsen play portrays, in compelling scenes, the inevitable results of immorality and drives home the great question of heredity and the responsibility of parents. You are held spellbound from first scene to last -- not only by the plot and action of the story -- or rather its wonderful message -- but by the tremendous force of the acting and the artistic beauty of the pictures. Not a single false note mars the harmony of this splendid production.
GHOSTS with Henry B. Walthall, Mary Alden and Nigel De Brullier. Directed by George Nichols and John Emerson. Mutual. More Information on this film...
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