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The Child of the Sea (1913)
Short | 22 min | Drama, Romance, Short

The Child of the Sea (1913)

Short | 22 min | Drama, Romance, Short

A terrible storm at sea so badly damages the vessel under the command of Captain Warren that the crew deserts the ship in all the lifeboats available. The captain then binds his little daughter, Nellie, and wife to a spar and sets them ...See moreA terrible storm at sea so badly damages the vessel under the command of Captain Warren that the crew deserts the ship in all the lifeboats available. The captain then binds his little daughter, Nellie, and wife to a spar and sets them adrift. When they are picked up by a lighthouse keeper, it is discovered that the mother has died. The little girl is cared for by the keeper. Fifteen years later Nellie, who has now grown into a beautiful woman, is the adored of Bill Jackson, the stalwart assistant keeper, which fact falls so upon the nerves of Jim Arnold, of the coast patrol, that he writes an anonymous letter to Warren, who had been rescued from the wreck, and who has become a government inspector of lighthouses, telling him that the keeper of Far Point Light is so old that he is incapacitated from doing his work and that the assistant is a drunkard. One night, sometime later, as Jackson is going to attend to the light he is felled by a hard blow on the head by Arnold. This is seen by Nellie, who, while wanting to go to the aid of her lover, sees the greater necessity of attending to the light. She is followed by Arnold after he has deposited the body on the rocks where the rising tide would get him and thereby give the impression that he had been drowned. Nellie has no sooner started the flaring light revolving in its orbit when she notices the trap door being raised and the head of Arnold protruding. She jumps on the trap door and holds the wood-be assassin in that position until she receives aid from the lighthouse keeper and the government inspector, who had decided to investigate the truth of the anonymous letter he had received and who, upon learning the true state of affairs from the keeper, went with him to the assistance of Nellie. There is mutual recognition between father and daughter. Instead of being drowned by the rising tide, Jackson is revived and in his company Nellie finds comfort and happiness. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Harold Lockwood Bill Jackson - Assistant Lighthouse Keeper Bill Jackson - Assistant Lighthouse Keeper See fewer	The Promise (1917)
Kathlyn Williams Capt. Warren's Wife / Nell Warren - Capt. Warren's Grown Daughter Capt. Warren's Wife / Nell Warren - Capt. Warren's Grown Daughter See fewer	The Rosary (1915)
Herbert Rawlinson Jim Arnold - a Young Fisherman Jim Arnold - a Young Fisherman See fewer	The Flame Fighter (1925)
Al W. Filson Capt. Warren Capt. Warren See fewer	Monte Cristo (1922)
William Hutchison Tom Lawton - the Lighthouse Keeper (as William Hutchinson) Tom Lawton - the Lighthouse Keeper (as William Hutchinson) See fewer	The Fair Barbarian (1917)
Lillian Hayward Mrs. Lawton - the Lighthouse Keeper's Wife Mrs. Lawton - the Lighthouse Keeper's Wife See fewer	Etienne of the Glad Heart (1914)
Baby Lillian Wade Nell Warren as a Child Nell Warren as a Child See fewer	Little Orphant Annie (1918)
John Schoenstein Olsen Olsen See fewer	The Child of the Sea (1913)