The Derelict
Overview
Loutish Teddy Brant feeling trapped by his marriage and family commitments to the sweet Rose and their infant daughter Helen fakes his suicide and embarks on a dissolute life. Thinking herself free Rose remarries, and time passes contently. Years later, Teddy, now a hopeless derelict, wanders the country straying one night into the waiting room of a train station. He sees a young girl being accosted by an elderly gentleman who tries to entice her home. Teddy thinks nothing of the incident until he finds a purse lying on the seat and learns that the girl is his daughter Helen. Teddy hastens after them and in the ensuing fight, strangles Helen's assailant and then flees. Helen is arrested for the murder but is acquitted when Teddy staggers into the police station and confesses to the crime.
Release date
16/04/1917
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Original Soundtrack
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Should a Mother Tell
My Little Sister
Does It Pay?
Daughters of the Night
The Unwelcome Mother
Who Are My Parents?
Love Letters
The Town That Forgot God
The Broadway Peacock
Love Is Love
Tin Pan Alley
Woman, Woman!
The Husband Hunter
A Soldier's Oath
The Knife
Catch My Smoke
Know Your Men
You Can't Get Away with It
A Branded Soul