Mortmain

Mortmain

🎞️ Movie 50 min --
โ˜… 4.8 /10 1915

The Censorship Boards of Chicago and Philadelphia Refused to Let This Picture be Shown in These Towns. See What a Treat We Are Giving You.

Mortmain is an accomplished musician and rare art collector. He is greatly impressed when his friend, Dr. Pennison Crisp, successfully grafts a paw from one cat onto another. Mortmain's engagement to Bella Forsythe is complicated by the fact that she is the ward of his friend, banker Gordon Russell, to whom he owes money. Worse, Russell is also in love with Bella. Russell causes Bella's brother, Tom Forsythe, to disgrace himself, and forces Mortmain into bankruptcy. Mortmain rashly says that he would like to kill Russell, but this is overheard by Flaggs, who works for Russell's lawyer. Mortmain then hears that Russell has been murdered, and in shock he faints and injures his hand. Dr. Crisp anesthetizes Mortmain with ether, which causes hallucinations, and creepily tells him that although he must amputate the hand, another can be grafted in its place. Tom Forsythe, who is suspected of the murder, agrees to Crisp's offer of $10,000, but dies during the transplant. Crisp now grafts Tom's hand onto Mortmain's arm. Mortmain gradually goes insane as Flaggs blackmails him and Bella is now afraid to be touched by him. The hand goes crazy! Mortmain awakens from his ether-induced dream to find that Tom's hand is choking Flaggs...

Cast

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Robert Edeson
Mortmain
Donald Hall
Donald Hall
Gordon Russell
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Edward Elkas
Flaggs
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Joseph Weber
Flynt
Muriel Ostriche
Muriel Ostriche
Bella Forsythe
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Karin Norman
Miss Fickles
James Morrison
James Morrison
Tom Forsythe
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J. Herbert Frank
Dr. Pennison Crisp
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Claude James
Scalscope
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Roland Osborne
Mortmain's Butler
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Reginald Lyons
Cinematographer
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Arthur T. Quinn
Cinematographer