A Timely Repentance

A Timely Repentance

10 mins | March 11, 1912

A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and they have a baby. Crawford is engaged in perfecting an invention and money is short leaving the wife dissatisfied. Robinson notes this fact and lures her away. She goes with him deserting the baby, leaving a note for her husband. While awaiting the train to leave the city they visit a picture house. The story thrown on the screen is identical to their own experience. Unable to witness the closing scenes and filled with remorse, Mrs. Crawford begs to leave and hurries home, hoping she may get there before her husband returns.

A Timely Repentance

10 mins | March 11, 1912

A Timely Repentance
A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and they have a baby. Crawford is engaged in perfecting an invention and money is short leaving the wife dissatisfied. Robinson notes this fact and lures her away. She goes with him deserting the baby, leaving a note for her husband. While awaiting the train to leave the city they visit a picture house. The story thrown on the screen is identical to their own experience. Unable to witness the closing scenes and filled with remorse, Mrs. Crawford begs to leave and hurries home, hoping she may get there before her husband returns.
Producers Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (IMP)
Original title A Timely Repentance
Directors William H. Clifford
Writers Edward J. Montagne

Cast

Mary Pickford

as Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'

Edward LeSaint

as John Crawford - the Poor Husband

William E. Shay

as Wilbur Robinson - the Wife's New Lover

Lucille Young

as Mrs. John Crawford - the Poor Man's Wife

J. Farrell MacDonald

as Louis Nordell

Hayward Mack

as Ronald Seymour (as H.S. Mack)