John Heriot's Wife
Summary
In a labyrinthine narrative of moral quandary and financial desperation, "John Heriot's Wife" unveils a chilling compact forged in the shadows of societal expectation. A ruthlessly pragmatic usurer, wielding the potent leverage of an insurmountable debt, orchestrates a clandestine operation. The indebted woman, caught in a vise of economic precarity, is coerced into an insidious mission: to infiltrate the seemingly unimpeachable domestic sphere of a minister and extort a crucial financial secret from his unsuspecting wife. This Machiavellian bargain transforms a private financial burden into a weapon of social subversion, forcing the protagonist into a profound ethical abyss where her own survival hinges on the calculated betrayal of another's trust, exposing the fragile veneers of respectability and the corrosive power of capital.
Synopsis
A usurer cancels a woman's debt in return for wresting a financial secret from a minister's wife.
Director
Alex Benno, Reginald Lawson, Adelqui Migliar, Mary Odette, Henry Victor, Annie Bos, Leni Marcus, Lola Cornero, Renee Spiljar, Fred Homann, Carl Tobi
Claude Askew, B.E. Doxat-Pratt, Alice Askew
