Revised list of high-class original motion picture films (1908)

TRAGEDY. who receives her tenderly. The soldier is overcome with grief — all the happiness has gone out of his life and despair has filled his heart. In a moment of frenzy he takes out his pistol, placing it back of his head, pulls the trigger and drops dead at the feet of his faithless sweetheart. Consternation now fills the heart of the latter, and bidding the other man go she tenderly raises the head of her betrothed and, imprinting a kiss upon his cold brow, she drops the head and rushes back to her home, where she appears in a state verging on lunacy. Bidding her father farewell she rushes on until she comes to the river, where, after a moment's hesitation, she plunges into the deep water. Her father calls assistance and they rush on after the girl. A young man plunges into the water and soon returns with the body of the victim of her own misfortune, precipitated by her fickleness. The body is placed on the ground, but every effort at resuscitation proves vain, and the heartbroken father bends over the lifeless form of his daughter, overcome with grief at the sad ending of a career that looked so; promising. P. D. 519X. SECRET OP THE INN. Price, $54.00. Approximate Length, 450 feet. A sensational tragedy enacted with a remarkable realism. The entire subject will hold the audience spellbound throughout the exhibition. The subject opens with the front view of a palatial residence. Two cavaliers are leaving the place, and as they reach the bottom of the staircase their horses are led out to them and a page places their treasures in the saddles. As they ride off they wave adieux to the ladies on the stair and are soon lost to view. On a lonely road we see several desperate looking characters hatching a plot. They do not see an old lady near the hedge, overhearing their plot, and when soon after our cavaliers come by the road she apprises them of what is in store ahead, for which she is handsomely rewarded. Following the plotters in the road we see them at the roadside inn, where they have a rendezvous. After dividing the proceeds of a previous haul we see the chief open a secret door and deposit several bags of bullion in an opening in the floor. Closing the panel he touches a spring, and the. floor, which is a mechanical -arrangement, rises and now forms the ceiling to the room; the regular entrance to this room is through a door from the outside. A damsel is left in charge of the inn, with instructions to pull the cord, which starts the machinery to lower the floor, when she hears a commotion in the next room. Our brigands now scatter about the place, and as the cavaliers approach they are accosted by two of the men and invited to put up at the inn. They refuse, and are about to gallop away when several shots are fired at them. Dismounting, our friends now engage in a battle royal, bullets and sabre thrusts filling the air. The brigands are defeated and lie about on the ground, when the chief, the last remaining of the party, takes refuge in the inn, but unintentionally he enters the room with the secret arrangement of the floor. As soon as he is in the door closes automatically and he drops to the floor exhausted. Taking this for her cue the girl starts the mechanism and the ponderous ceiling slowly descends. The chief now makes vain efforts to get out, but he cannot force the door, nor break the panel or stop the machinery. He attempts to hold the ceiling, but is slowly forced to the floor, where lie is crushed to death. The cavaliers have by this time entered the inn and are attacked by the maiden in charge. Quickly disarming her she is made prisoner and taken into custody. This furnishes the sequel to the existence and operation of the daring brigands — caught in their own trap. 179