Behind the Mask

Story

Synopsis

Financier Mark Harrold is responsible for the financial ruin and subsequent suicide of Stanton. Following his death, Stanton's daughter Margaret, seeking revenge, goes to work for Harrold's beloved daughter Helen. The latter plans to marry the dashing Lord Strathmore and thus attain her social ambitions, but Margaret, to avenge her father's death, wins Strathmore away from her by deception. After their marriage, Margaret leaves Strathmore, claiming that she never loved him. With the birth of their child, Margaret becomes ill and blind, but Strathmore finds her and gives her money under an assumed identity. Following an operation that restores her sight, Margaret recognizes her husband as her benefactor and realizes that she loves him.

Director

Alice Guy-Blaché

Writers

Charles T. Dazey, Fred Rath

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

3 September 1917

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Catherine Calvert

  Margaret Stanton

• 

  Richard Tucker

  Lord Strathmore

• 

  Charles Halton

  Larrabee

• Kirke Brown

  Mark Harrold

• Charles Dungan

  Stanton

• Flora Nason

  Helen Harrold