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The Broken Violin

9.0 60 mins Drama   1923
Atlantic Features  
Director(s): John Francis Dillon

Release Date: 10 Thu, May 1923

Elderly Jeremy Ellsworth decides to settle his fortune on John and Beatrice, the children of his disinherited son. He sends a message for them to come live with him. Beatrice arrives safely, but James Gault, Ellsworth's secretary, intercepts the letter to John and engages Phil Carter to pose as the heir. Lumber camp foreman John hears of the plot and heads to the Ellsworth home to squash it but is overpowered by thugs who also kidnap Beatrice. Escaping his captors, John rescues his sister from a speedboat with the aid of a hydroplane and finds love with Beatrice's governess.

Casts of The Broken Violin

Warren Cook

as Thomas Kitterly

Reed Howes

as John Ellsworth

Sydney Deane

as Dr. Mason

Dorothy Mackaill

as Constance Morley

Gladden James

as Phil Carter

Zena Keefe

as Governess

Edward Roseman

as Half-Wit

Joseph Blake

as Jeremy Ellsworth

Henry Sedley

as James Gault

Rita Rogan

as Beatrice Ellsworth

J.H. Lewis

as Jules Davega

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