Heléne of the North
"As 'Helene of the North,' Marguerite Clark is provided with the most impressive characterization she has yet assumed throughout her triumphant association with the screen."
1915 · 50m · N/A Drama, Romance
Overview
While waiting for the detained Lord Traverse, the guest of honor at an English society party, the guests play a game wherein each must tell a complete story before a cigarette burns out. Heléne Dearing relates that her proud father John left England after being exposed as a card cheat and became a whiskey runner near a Canadian lumber camp.
Director and cast
- Marguerite Clark as Heléne Dearing
- Conway Tearle as Ralph Connell, a.k.a. Lord Traverse
- Elliott Dexter as Pierre
- Kathryn Adams as Miss Cadwell
- Frank Losee as John Dearing
- Ida Darling as Mrs. O'Neill
- Robert Rogers as Captain Westforth
- David Wall as Father Duvall
- Theodore Guise as Colonel O'Neill
- James Kearney as Philip Brookes
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