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Four Thirteen (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

Four Thirteen (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

Baron Barcellos, an unscrupulous nobleman engaged in smuggling diamonds, meets Elaine, the daughter of Mr. Hall, a wealthy diamond merchant, on board an ocean liner, returning from Europe. Among the other passengers is Tina, an adventuress...See moreBaron Barcellos, an unscrupulous nobleman engaged in smuggling diamonds, meets Elaine, the daughter of Mr. Hall, a wealthy diamond merchant, on board an ocean liner, returning from Europe. Among the other passengers is Tina, an adventuress, who is infatuated with the Baron. A wireless message warns the smuggler that he is being watched, but he contrives to get the gems by the customs. His person and baggage are searched by Raymond Davis, a wealthy club man, secretly connected with the secret service. On leaving the dock, Barcellos meets the Halls. After accepting an invitation to call later, hurries away to a rendezvous where he meets 413, head of an American smuggling band, and receives pay for his diamonds. Meantime Raymond Davis, a sweetheart of Elaine's sees her home, proposes and is accepted. She telephones the news to her father at his office just as the Baron arrives to ask permission of Mr. Hall to court Elaine. Hall tells him of her engagement to Davis and asks the Baron to dinner that night to congratulate them. The Baron accepts and, on leaving, calls up Tina, and outlines a plan to detain Davis from dinner and put him in wrong with his sweetheart. Tina enters into the plot and contrives to get Davis to carry her into a restaurant where she locks the door, tears open her dress, musses up Davis and calls for help. They are arrested and brought to the police station. A reporter gets the story. Davis is released on proving his connection with the secret service, but an account of his arrest and the cause is published in the papers. Elaine, seeing it, breaks the engagement. Davis suspects the Baron and determines to follow her. Elaine visits her father's office just as the Baron accuses Hall of being 413 and Davis, arriving at this juncture, the Baron sees his chance and forces Hall to acknowledge the engagement of Elaine and himself. Elaine, suspicious, determines to have an interview with Tina and visits the prison where she is held. Telling Tina of the Baron's infatuation, Elaine gets her to tell the address of the den and that the leader of the band is known as 413. Calling up secret service headquarters, she places her information with the sub-chief. He. with an aide, accompanies her to the den. Breaking in the door, they find Davis, 413 and the Baron, who is about to shoot Davis. Throwing himself in front of her lover, she is saved from being shot by 413, who knocks the Baron down and escapes, driving off in a waiting automobile. Elaine, Davis and the sub-chief follow in another machine and are gaining on 413 when he abandons his auto, steals a train at a station and is off. The pursuers arrive at the station. Davis instructs the station agent to wire ahead to signal tower and have the train ditched. This is done and the sub-chief follows in an engine and Blaine and Davis in their machine. As the train, being driven by 413 at sixty miles an hour, reaches a bend near the signal tower, it shoots off into space and is wrecked after a drop of fifty feet down an embankment. They pull the body from the wreck, and find the smuggler chief was none other than Mr. Hall, Elaine's father, known as 413. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Anita Stewart Elaine Hall Elaine Hall See fewer	A Midnight Romance (1919)
Anders Randolf Mr. Hall, Elaine's Father Mr. Hall, Elaine's Father See fewer	The Viking (1928)
Harry T. Morey Raymond Davis of the Secret Police Raymond Davis of the Secret Police See fewer	In Honor's Web (1919)
Julia Swayne Gordon Tina Tina See fewer	My Lady's Slipper (1916)
Harry Northrup Baron Barcellos Baron Barcellos See fewer	The Heart of Maryland (1927)
Paul Scardon Sub-Chief of the Secret Service Sub-Chief of the Secret Service See fewer	Partners of the Night (1920)