The Bondman

The Bondman

Drama | March 20, 1916

The narrative hinges on Jason's vow to wreak vengeance on his father for abandoning his mother. But his father dies, and Jason turns his desire for revenge against Sunlocks, his father's son of another wife. Both Sunlocks and Jason are in love with Greeba, daughter of the governor of the Isle of Man. Sunlocks and Jason go to Iceland, and are confined in prison. Jason not knowing Sunlocks, saves his half-brother from death in the mines. Jason is freed, but Sunlocks is condemned to death. Greeba pleads for Sunlocks' life, and Jason sacrifices himself by taking Sunlocks' place and dying for him. -- Wikipedia

The Bondman

Drama | March 20, 1916

The Bondman
The narrative hinges on Jason's vow to wreak vengeance on his father for abandoning his mother. But his father dies, and Jason turns his desire for revenge against Sunlocks, his father's son of another wife. Both Sunlocks and Jason are in love with Greeba, daughter of the governor of the Isle of Man. Sunlocks and Jason go to Iceland, and are confined in prison. Jason not knowing Sunlocks, saves his half-brother from death in the mines. Jason is freed, but Sunlocks is condemned to death. Greeba pleads for Sunlocks' life, and Jason sacrifices himself by taking Sunlocks' place and dying for him. -- Wikipedia
Producers Fox Film Corporation
Original title The Bondman
Directors Edgar Lewis
Writers Edgar Lewis, Hall Caine

Cast

William Farnum

as Stephen Orry/Jason Orry

L. O. Hart

as Adam Fairbrother

Dorothy Bernard

as Greeba

Charles Graham

as Jorgen Jorgenson

Doris Wooldridge

as Rachel

Charles Brooke

as Danish minister

Julia Hurley

as Stephen Orry's mother

Carey Lee

as Liza Killey

Harry Spingler

as Sunlocks