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The Crystal Ball
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Jack Hopkins [Walter Deland], Marian Swayne [Gladys Brooks], Henry Bergman [a business associate]
Pyramid Film Company production; distributed by Warner’s Features, Incorporated. / Released April 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Mystery.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? When Henry Howland, the great philanthropist, feels his health failing, he makes his will and entrusts it to his nephew, Walter, to file away in his private safe. Impelled by curiosity, Walter opens the will and discovers that his uncle has cut him off with a mere pittance, leaving the major portion of his estate to charity. He cleverly forges a new clause to the will, and is in the act of substituting it for the original when surprised by his uncle. After a heated argument, Howland dies of heart failure and Walter, panic-stricken, carries him to his own room and notifies the coroner. Later, Walter accompanies Gladys Brooks, with whom he is in love, to the retreat of a Hindoo mystic, a crystal gazer, who bares Walter’s life while in a mesmeric trance. Fearful of arrest, Walter escapes from the room and eludes the detectives put on his tracks by the district attorney, who is a rival suitor for the hand of Gladys. After a time he returns and makes a clean breast of the whole affair. The district attorney seeing that Gladys loves Walter, and that Walter is sincere in his desire to start life anew, calls off his detectives and allows the couple to catch the Montreal express.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 12 February 2024.
References: Tarbox-Lost p. 206 : Website-IMDb.
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