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A Fatal Deception (1912)
Short | Short, Drama

A Fatal Deception (1912)

Short | Short, Drama

The scene is laid in a hotel in a winter pleasure resort in Germany. Herr Muller, a young man of wealth and position,and his wife are enjoying a holiday. Although their marriage is of comparatively recent date, the woman has already tired ...See moreThe scene is laid in a hotel in a winter pleasure resort in Germany. Herr Muller, a young man of wealth and position,and his wife are enjoying a holiday. Although their marriage is of comparatively recent date, the woman has already tired of the affection lavished upon her by her husband, and has engaged in an intrigue with a handsome young lieutenant of cavalry, whose regiment is stationed in the neighborhood. She is engaged upon a letter to her lover making an appointment for the following day, when her husband enters and shows her a note which he has written to Lieutenant Wolff asking him to ride and breakfast with them in the morning. Inwardly laughing at his simplicity, she consents to the note being sent ; and at the breakfast the lieutenant passes a note to her unobserved by her husband. Unfortunately for the lovers the husband later discovers his wife secreting the note in her desk, and her demeanor arousing his suspicions, he obtains possession of it, and the photo which accompanies it; whereupon, his wife, terrified, confesses all, ending, as she sees the passion reflected in her husband's face, "Now you can kill me." Muller, however, has devised a far darker method of vengeance. He secures two dueling swords and sits down to write, his wife creeping to the door horror-stricken at the sight of weapons seeing that he is penning his will. She is convinced-as her husband intends she shall be-that he is going to fight a duel with Wolff, and, clinging to him, attempts to restrain him, only to be cast aside. Returning to her room, she waits in terror until once again her husband returns. Her worst fears are confirmed when he tells her that he has killed her lover. Actually he has merely absented himself for a sufficient period to deceive his wife. In the midst of the unhappy woman's misery, an invitation to a ball is brought in for Mr. and Mrs. Muller. The husband tells the broken-hearted wife that they must go, and at his command she dresses herself and accompanies him to the place of entertainment, to which her husband had previously found out, by means of the telephone, Lieutenant Wolff had also been invited. Most impressive are the scenes which show the ill-matched couple-the deadly hatred and fear with which they regard one another masked under a guise of affectionate regard -entering the crowded drawing room. It chances that they are left alone in the room, the other guests having proceeded to the ballroom, and at this stage the footman announces " Lieutenant Wolff," and to her boundless horror the unhappy woman sees the figure of the man she believes to have gone to his death upon her account. The shock is too much and she falls to the floor lifeless ; and while the soldier drops on his knees in grief beside the body, the husband, his inhuman vengeance completed, laughs at his distress. Written by Kinematograph Weekly - February 22, 1912 See less

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Ubaldo Maria Del Colle Actor Actor See fewer	The Blue Diamond: Raffles' Last Exploit (1911)
Mary Cleo Tarlarini Actress Actress See fewer	Love Reconquered (1912)
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