The Deemster

Story

Synopsis

Daniel Mylrea is the son of the Bishop of Man, the baron of the Isle of Man, whose temporal power is higher even than that of the Deemster, or governor. The Bishop desires Dan to become a minister, but he prefers to be a fisherman. The Deemster of Man has a son and a daughter, Mona and Ewan. Dan and Mona are in love. She consents to marry him when he can obtain her father's consent. Ewan, her brother, decides to become a clergyman, even in the face of his father's insistence that he take up business as a vocation. The Deemster opposes Dan's suit for Mona's hand because he has fallen from his high estate as the son of the Bishop by becoming a fisherman.

Director

Howell Hansel

Writers

Edfrid A. Bingham, Hall Caine, Charles A. Taylor

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

15 April 1917

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Derwent Hall Caine

  Daniel Mylrea

• 

  Marian Swayne

  Mona

• 

  Sidney Bracey

  Bishop, Father of Dan

• Albert Froom

  Deemster, Father of Mona

• K. Barnes Clarendon

  Ewan

• 

  Alexander Hall

  Davy, Dan's Friend

• James Levering

  Quayle

• Ben Lodge

  Billy Quilleash

• Tom O'Malley

  Hommy Beg

• Lee Post

  Fisherman

• William V. Miller

  Fisherman

• Freeman Barnes

  Fisherman