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The Blindness of Virtue
(1915) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels
Directed by Joseph Byron Totten
Cast: Bryant Washburn [Archibald Graham], Edna Mayo [Effie Pemberton], Thomas MacLarnie [Reverend Harry Pemberton], George Le Guere [Edward Winstanley], Betty Brown [Mary Ann], Renee Noel [Daisy Courtneigh], John Cossar [Lord Aberlady], Harry Dunkinson [Aberlady’s butler], Betty Scott [a chorus girl]
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From the play adaptation The Blindness of Virtue by Cosmo Hamilton of the novel The Blindness of Virtue by Cosmo Hamilton. / © 29 June 1915 by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company [LP5700]. Released 19 July 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Social.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The Hon. Archibald Graham is expelled from college and his indignant father sends him to a little English village to study under the Rev. Harry Pemberton. Misunderstood by his father, he has grown up somewhat reckless and dissipated. All this is changed under the tutelage of the minister and he enters into the spirit of his studies with zeal. Effie Pemberton is a young girl of seventeen. She has never been told of the fundamental principles of life and has been brought up in absolute innocence and ignorance of the sex problem. She and Archie become fast friends. Winstanley, a friend of Archie’s, comes to the village to visit him. He is a shallow pated youth, with no moral principles. He meets Mary Ann, the daughter of a washwoman in the village. She longs for pretty clothes and all the gaieties she has been denied, and being as innocent of life as Effie, is persuaded by Winstanley to elope to London with him. Archie follows them with the intention of saving her from his friend. In this he fails. He returns to the vicarage early in the morning. Effie, in her innocence, rushes to his room in her kimona, to tell him how glad she is to see him again. He tries to get her out of the room, but she refuses to go. The minister bursts into the room and accuses Archie of evil intentions. Archie, in an honest indignation, tells the minister some wholesome truths about his leaving his daughter in such total ignorance, which opens his eyes. Mary Ann returns home, a wreck of her former self and tells the minister her story. Pemberton and his wife then awake to the fact that girls are more likely to go wrong through innocence than in any other way. Effie is told the great truths of life. Finally Archie and Effie discover that they have been in love and promise to marry. // Additional synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0386.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 29 December 2024.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0386; Tarbox-Lost pp. 250, 257 : Website-IMDb.
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