The Derelict (1915)

Director: Henry Otto

Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could never marry a man who was a drunkard. Morgan, secretly in love with Louise, gets Leo intoxicated and sends him to her home. Louise breaks off the engagement and Bruce pursues her. Undecided, she slips into a dream where she is mired in a life of misery with Morgan, who has become a worse drunkard than Holmes as well as selfish and brutal. In trying to defend herself from Bruce she kills him with a pair of shears. Holmes, a poor derelict, hears her scream, rushes to her rescue. Louise awakens and sends for Leo.

Cast

Edward Coxen

Leo Holmes

Winifred Greenwood

Louise Wilke

John Steppling

P.G. Wilke, Esq.

George Field

Bruce Morgan

William Bertram

Dr. Lane