The Bondage of Fear (1917)

10.0/10 50 min Crime Drama

Overview

Vesta Wheatley is the daughter of a Virginia physician; John Randolph is a New Yorker who buys a tract of land from her father. Vesta and John fall in love, get married, and move to New York. They are followed, however, by a persistent old flame of Vesta's, Dick Mortimer. He tracks her down to a mountain cabin, where she is alone. A burglar breaks in on the two, and Dick is killed trying to protect Vesta. The burglar blackmails Vesta until she finally becomes desperate and shoots him in her own home.

Cast

Ethel Clayton

Vesta Wheatley

John Bowers

Dick Mortimer

Edward Kimball

Dr. Jason Wheatley

Rockliffe Fellowes

John Randolph

Arthur Ashley

Skinny Morgan

George Morgan

Jim

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