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Olga, the Adventuress (1912)
Short | Short, Drama

Olga, the Adventuress (1912)

Short | Short, Drama

Baron De Tournay, a musician and composer, has betrothed his daughter, Delicia, to the Chevalier De Maison. He then attends a party at which the much celebrated singer Olga Pavlova is to sing. The old man becomes infatuated with the singer...See moreBaron De Tournay, a musician and composer, has betrothed his daughter, Delicia, to the Chevalier De Maison. He then attends a party at which the much celebrated singer Olga Pavlova is to sing. The old man becomes infatuated with the singer and invites her to spend a few days at his country home. His daughter intuitively feels that the Countess is an adventuress, and her misgivings are justified when the entrapped father asks the Countess to marry him. Delicia, in sorrow that her dead mother's place should he filled by such a creature, has her fiancé instigate inquiry into the past of the diva. He obtains a report from the police which tells of the scandalous and criminal actions of the singer in Vienna, Moscow and Budapest, and that she had several times been in prison for felonies. Using the document as a club, he tries to frighten the adventuress into abandoning her scheme of marrying the Baron, and incidentally his money. The adventuress by a ruse gives the Baron the idea that the young man is infatuated with her, and that he has tried to induce her to elope with him. She has told the young man that she will submit to his demands under penalty of disclosure. She meets the Chevalier at the rendezvous, ostensibly confirming the story she has told of his perfidy to the Baron. She gallops away with the Chevalier, and later they enter a boat in which they were to row to the far side of the river, from whence she was to leave the neighborhood forever. As they get out upon the stream the Chevalier unwisely gives her the incriminating paper, after many pleadings. With the document now in her hands the Countess suddenly pushes the Chevalier overboard and. as he tries to clamber into the boat, strikes him upon the head with an oar. She then goes back to the shore, where the Baron awaits her, believing the Chevalier to have been drowned. She explains her actions to the Baron by saying that she was compelled to so act to defend her honor. The Chevalier, however, not to be so easily killed, reaches the shore, mounts his horse still grazing on the bank and pursues the attempted murderess and her dupe. He drags the woman from her horse, and as she lays partly stunned he then has to combat the frenzied Baron. He persuades the latter, however, to allow him to draw from the bodice of the woman where she had concealed it, the police report, which he shows to the astounded nobleman, who then, realizing that he had escaped great peril, orders the adventuress from his sight. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less