The Convict's Threat

The Convict's Threat

Drama | Sept. 28, 1915

The convict's cellmate, his time up, calls on the former's wife with a letter of introduction from the convict, and threatens to tell who her husband is unless she gives him money which she has earned by hard work as a stenographer and seamstress. The convict saves the warden's little daughter from drowning and is pardoned for his brave deed. Meanwhile his released cellmate forces the convict's wife again and again to give him money, and calling at her home one night, attempts to kiss her, but she repels him with a revolver. The pardoned convict arrives just in time to hear what passes and almost chokes his former cellmate to death.

The Convict's Threat

Drama | Sept. 28, 1915

The Convict's Threat

The convict's cellmate, his time up, calls on the former's wife with a letter of introduction from the convict, and threatens to tell who her husband is unless she gives him money which she has earned by hard work as a stenographer and seamstress. The convict saves the warden's little daughter from drowning and is pardoned for his brave deed. Meanwhile his released cellmate forces the convict's wife again and again to give him money, and calling at her home one night, attempts to kiss her, but she repels him with a revolver. The pardoned convict arrives just in time to hear what passes and almost chokes his former cellmate to death.

Producers	The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
Original title	The Convict's Threat
Directors	Gilbert M. Anderson
Writers

Cast

Gilbert M. Anderson

as The Convict

Lee Willard

as His Cellmate

Marguerite Clayton

as The Convict's Wife

Harry Todd

as The Warden

Eva McKenzie

as The Warden's Wife

Ella McKenzie

as The Warden's Daughter