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The Stain

The Stain

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 17, 1914

Runtime

1h 6m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

The Stain

Production Companies

Pathé Frères

Director

Frank Powell

Description

An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed name. While he is becoming a lawyer and making his way up the ladder of success with the help of a political boss, the wife he left behind (Eleanor Woodruff) remains destitute and is forced to give up her child to an orphanage. The girl is adopted and grows up (played as an adult by Virginia Pearson) to become the secretary to an honest young lawyer. But the girl has the same quirk that her father had, and it causes her to steal a bracelet at a department store. She is arrested and finds herself before her father, who is now a judge.