The Fruit of Evil

The Fruit of Evil

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 22, 1914

Runtime

0h 11m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

The Fruit of Evil

Production Companies

Nestor Film Company

Director

Wallace Reid

Description

The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is taken into a kindly fisherman's family. To more surely separate herself from the world that knows her. She assumes her maiden name. Many years afterward the father and the son, now grown, pass through the village. The son becomes acquainted with his own sister, knowing nothing of the relationship, and falls in love with her. He persuades his father to spend his season at a summer resort nearby. Later, the son and the daughter are secretly married. The girl leaves a note for her mother, telling her of the act. The mother follows to the parsonage, and then the summer resort, where she overtakes the couple.