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The Ward of the Mission
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Augusta Anderson [the young widow], Robert Nolan [the widow’s grown son]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 4 March 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Reared in a mission to which his mother entrusted him as a child, the young man wishes to enter the order, but the monks wisely decide that he must first see something of the world, and he is sent forth with a round sum of money. Fate leads him to an inn where he loses all to a gambler. The gambler’s wife pities him and learns his story. She is horrified to recognize in him her own son, whom she left in care of the monks so that he might never know his unworthy father. While attempting to return his money, she is discovered by her husband, and in the ensuing struggle she accidentally kills him. The boy, still ignorant of his mother’s twofold sacrifice, returns to the mission, and she finds peace at last in a cloister.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 October 2023.
References: Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-IMDb.
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