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The Stigma (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

The Stigma (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

More than six or eight times has life been compared to the sea; both have their storms, their ebb and tide; both have their reefs, and shoals; both have their flotsam. Yet every derelict floating rudderless and aimless on the enchanted sea...See moreMore than six or eight times has life been compared to the sea; both have their storms, their ebb and tide; both have their reefs, and shoals; both have their flotsam. Yet every derelict floating rudderless and aimless on the enchanted sea of life, is human evidence of the dereliction of his fellowmen. Clifford, a young man of a seacoast town, discovers evidence of a wreck, and later a girl, clinging to the wreckage a great distance from shore. She is rescued by him. He carries her to his cottage, where he and his mother resuscitate her. The girl is the girl of his dreams, the incarnation of his ideal, the consummation of vague visions born in fairy wreathes of smoke in the lull of twilight hours. And as time, the greatest of aviators, flies by, he learns to love her as a man loves only once in his life. Day by day she regains more of her health and strength. He proposes. When a villager and his dad find a chest, washed ashore from the wreck, they bring it at once to the little home. With much excitement and in spite of strong protest by the girl, the folks open it and discover the log of the ill-fated ship. The secret is out; the girl is found to be a leper, who was being transported to an isolated island when the wreck occurred. And, well, if through the ages love were not strong enough to withstand despair, disease and even death, probably we'd not be here today, telling you about a greater picture. The father demands that the girl leave at once. The village is up in anger. She is driven as were those poor unfortunates during the days of witchcraft. But the boy, Clifford, who was a real human man, a lover after God's description, tells of his determination to go with her. In spite of the girl's protestations and her plea for him to remain with his father and mother, he leaves his home and puts out with her in a little boat, headed for an island nearby. For love, love of the girl be gave up all. That night, as he is sleeping in the rude temporary camp he had constructed, she weighs in her mind the man's sacrifice for her, and determined to pursue the only course of her disposal to alter this, she goes back to the remorseless sea that had before yielded her up, to be its own bride forever. He followed; perhaps they're happy in that "forever" life. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Francis X. Bushman Clifford Harvey Clifford Harvey See fewer	Sabrina (1954)
Beverly Bayne Alice Madden, an Outcast Alice Madden, an Outcast See fewer	Romeo and Juliet (II) (1916)
Thomas Commerford Clifford's Father Clifford's Father See fewer	The Ex-Convict (1913)
Betty Brown Jane, Clifford's Sweetheart Jane, Clifford's Sweetheart See fewer	Our Relations (1936)
Clara Smith Clifford's Mother Clifford's Mother See fewer	Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play (1914)