The Key to Yesterday

The Key to Yesterday

Drama | Oct. 12, 1914

George Carter, a revolutionist in South America, is the exact double of Frederick Marston, a famous artist in Paris. Carter is betrayed by a comrade and is sentenced to be shot. He takes a desperate chance and escapes on board a vessel bound for London. In Paris Marston is stabbed by a model because he does not return her love. The wound incapacitates him from painting, and leaves an ugly scar, and he goes to America on a vacation. Highwaymen attack him, inflicting injuries which cause a total loss of memory. The robbers leave nothing in his pockets but the key to his Paris studio, and Marston adopts the name of Robert Anglo-Saxon.

The Key to Yesterday

Drama | Oct. 12, 1914

The Key to Yesterday
George Carter, a revolutionist in South America, is the exact double of Frederick Marston, a famous artist in Paris. Carter is betrayed by a comrade and is sentenced to be shot. He takes a desperate chance and escapes on board a vessel bound for London. In Paris Marston is stabbed by a model because he does not return her love. The wound incapacitates him from painting, and leaves an ugly scar, and he goes to America on a vacation. Highwaymen attack him, inflicting injuries which cause a total loss of memory. The robbers leave nothing in his pockets but the key to his Paris studio, and Marston adopts the name of Robert Anglo-Saxon.
Producers Favorite Players Film Co.
Original title The Key to Yesterday
Directors John Francis Dillon
Writers Robert Dillon, Charles Neville Buck

Cast

Carlyle Blackwell

as Frederick Marston / Robert Anglo-Saxon

Edna Mayo

as Duska Filson

Gypsy Abbott

as Mrs. Marston

George Brunton

as St. John

Jack Prescott

as SeƱor Roberto

John Sheehan

as George Steels

Ollie Kirby

as Undetermined Role