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  • The Doctor's Mistake (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Doctor's Mistake (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
Dr. Caverly, after giving a bachelor dinner in honor of his approaching marriage, returns to his apartment befuddled by too much red liquor. He is awakened by a messenger who comes from his sweetheart, Alice Windom, asking for tablets to ...See moreDr. Caverly, after giving a bachelor dinner in honor of his approaching marriage, returns to his apartment befuddled by too much red liquor. He is awakened by a messenger who comes from his sweetheart, Alice Windom, asking for tablets to relieve her neuralgia. He sleepily secures some from a box on the table, gives them to the butler, and then falls asleep. When he awakens in the morning he is aghast to read the label on the box, "Bichloride of Mercury Tablets." In a frenzy he picks up the telephone and hears that death is imminent at the home of his sweetheart, and to come at once. The sickening belief that the girl he loves is beyond aid, and he had killed her, transforms him into an abject coward. Later in the day he crept near the Windom home, but had not the moral courage to enter it, and when he saw the funeral emblem at the door he left like a murderer, fled from the spot, and began drinking in the hope of drowning memory, becoming a human derelict. One night as he was dragging his weary steps down the street he saw a man steadily effecting his entrance into a great house. Then the manhood in him quickened. He followed the intruder, intent upon preventing a crime. He entered the dining room and saw a desperate criminal threatening a beautiful girl with a revolver. In an instant he brought a 'heavy chair down upon the man' head, and the burglar dropped like a log. The girl, in her intense excitement, had fainted, and Caverly was transfixed with surprise and delight when he looked upon the face of his sweetheart, whom he firmly believed he had killed. When she recovered consciousness he learned from her the truth. It was her mother who had died from an attack of heart disease, after which Alice had come to live with her cousins. His landlady afterward cleared up the mystery of the poison, admitting that she had, in cleaning up, picked up the empty box upon the table and carelessly replaced it with the one containing the mercury tablets. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Oscar Eagle
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William Nicholas Selig
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Updated 1914/06/10
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6 10, 1914 (United States)

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