At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the young man's pregnant mother, and the unwed poor thing had to fight against a hostile world.
Direction
Antoine brings naturalist grit to silent melodrama.
Acting
Joubé's courtroom breakdown still wrecks.
Director
André Antoine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Antoine was a titan of naturalist theatre; this rare surviving film shows him dragging stage realism into cinema.
Most of Antoine's films are lost — this 1917 melodrama survives almost by accident.
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