The Revolutionist
Summary
Gaslight flickers across a ballroom where gilded masks outnumber souls; beneath the chandeliers a self-styled baron—equal parts silk and rust—swaps coronets like playing-cards, convinced that love can be counterfeited as easily as blood-stained banknotes. His target: the moon-pale sister of a bomb-making anarchist whose pamphlets promise to unmake the very palaces the impostor longs to inhabit. Through velvet antechambers and rain-lashed docks they chase a future already rigged with dynamite; every whispered endearment tightens the fuse. When dawn finds them aboard a coal-black steamer flying no flag, the only crown left is the horizon’s crimson wound—proof that revolutions begin not with manifestos but with a kiss that promises the world and delivers exile.
Synopsis
A baron poses as a prince to elope with an anarchist's sister.
Director
Henry Victor, Fred Morgan, Ethyle Batley, Dick Webb, Ethel Bracewell, George Foley
E.V. Edmonds, May Austin
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