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Out of the Shadow Synopsis
Ruth Minchin is unhappily married to her father's former business partner, a drunken brute. She contracts a friendship for Severino, a pianist, who lives in the same apartment house, and Minchin, discovering them together, orders the pianist from the room and knocks his wife down. Severino kills Minchin in a delirium following pneumonia, and Ruth is suspected of the crime. She is befriended by Richard Steel, who knew Minchin in Australia, but Steele is also suspected of the murder, and she cannot marry the man who killed her husband, but she recalls the encounter with Severino and, under pressure, the pianist confesses, clearing the mystery and their road to happiness. - Moving Picture World.
Sudden Riches Synopsis
Although he is a successful architect, devoted family man Robert Crewe does not earn enough to cover the expenses of his wife Marion and daughter Emily. Unknown to him, his Uncle Abner wants to ruin him because Robert's father stole Abner's fiancée, who died in childbirth after their marriage. Abner hires a beautiful seductress to break up Robert's happy home, but she is unsuccessful. Abner, who dies prematurely, leaves Robert his fortune, hoping that it finally will lead to Robert's downfall. As Robert and Marion drift apart, Emily is left in the hands of an uncaring nurse and cries herself to sleep each night. Robert has an affair with a Broadway actress and Marion becomes romantically involved with a prominent sculptor. Robert squanders his inheritance and involves himself in highly speculative business investments until, threatened with Emily's death, he and Marion finally decide to change their lives and bring the family back together once again.
"Out of the Shadow" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Sudden Riches" offers its own unique cult appeal.
Suggested Watch:
Out of the Shadow