Descriptive Catalogue of Pathéscope Films (1918)

104 CLASS 9— Dramas REEL NO. TITLE PRODUCER 782 to 787 Higher Than Love Pathe Margaret Dulot, a starving seamstress, becomes the innocent victim of Mr. Stunner, head of a band of German spies, who, knowing her poverty, tempts her honesty and forces her written acknowledgment that she stole a thousand franc note. They secure a governess' position for her in the home of a high military official and attempt to compel her to steal certain valuable documents. She leaves her position, advises her employer of Stunner's attempt and becomes a nurse. She falls in love with one of her patients, Lieut. Kernolan. Sturmer escapes arrest, disguises as an old man, enters the French camp, shoots the French messenger, dons the victim's uniform and reports to Lieut. Kernolan, after having steamed open and read his important orders. Margaret, as the guest of Madam Kernolan, recognizes Sturmer through his disguise and, regardless of Sturmer's threat to expose her, has him apprehended as he attempts to ride away. In revenge he gives Kernolan Margaret's written confession of thievery and she is ready to leave in disgrace, when Sturmer's accomplice confesses the plot against Margaret and unites the lovers. A romantic drama of the great war. 793 to 797 A Reflection of the Past Pathe Guiseppi, Signora Strezzi's son, is secretly in love with his mother's companion, Kitty Smollet. The mother, being aware of her son's infatuation, dismisses Kitty while Guiseppi is in Rome taking his engineering degree. Although heartbroken when he returns and learns of Kitty's dismissal, he later marries Evelyn Fielding, who bears a very striking resemblance to Kitty. After ten years Evelyn is taken seriously ill and dies. The little daughter Georgiana is threatened with blindness, while her father is away on a business trip, and the family doctor engages a nurse (Kitty), whose care brings back the sight of the little girl. Father returns and the daughter's and father's love for Kitty persuades her to remain with them. 799 to 803 Light of the Heart Pathe John Guersant is the director of a large factory, which manufactures explosives. The secretary of Robert Guersant, John's brother, is secretly in the employ of a rival concern which hires him to interfere with the success of a certain formula. This he does and on John's betrothal day to Sabine Villepre, he is blinded by the explosion of the formula. Sabine marries John in spite of his trouble. After six years of married happiness, Sabine, who has been collaborating with John's brother in the laboratory, discovers the missing formula, and just as she attempts to use it, the villanous secretary finds her and in the quarrel which follows Sabine is injured and her beauty badly marred. John Morton, a friend of the family, visits them and secures the advice of an eye specialist who informs John that his eyesight can be restored. Sabine, tells John of the accident to her face, and rather than see her in her deformity, he refrains from a visit to the specialist, preferring the light of the heart to the light of the eyes. 805 to 807 The Great Crime of Little Tonio Pathe Little Tonio and his father conduct a Punch and Judy show. Lionel, the sickly little son of wealthy parents attends a performance and takes a great fancy to the marionette, Punch. His mother tries to buy the doll for him, but the old man refuses to part with it. That night Tonio, feeling that the possession of the doll means so much to little Lionel, takes the doll from its box and climbing into