Millionaire banker Jack W. Johnson learns that his wife and young daughter have gone down in a cruise ship. What he doesn't know is the girl has survived, saved and raised by kindly hunchback Harry Lee. When she is grown into Louise Huff -- she seems to be suffering from amnesia.
Lee has a heart attack. She heads off to the city where she falls into the bad company of gangster John Dillon. Meanwhile, Johnson welcomes into his house his relative, the Reverend John Bowers. Dillon and his gang try to rob Johnson's home. They shoot his butler, and Dillon is scheduled to be hanged. Miss Huff, however, is taken under the care of Bowers, and the two are getting along like a house on fire, which displeases Kate Lester, who hopes to marry her daughter off to Johnson's heir.
Will Dillon escape and try to kill Miss Huff? Will there be a strawberry mark that proves who she is? Will things turn out happily? It's a trite melodrama, true enough, but John B. O'Brien's direction is pretty good, and if the camerawork is not dazzling, the editing is efficient. The performances are good and naturalistic, except for Johnson. Miss Huff's screen career faded out after 1920, almost certainly a victim of the interest in pretty, innocent leading ladies, although her stage career continued satisfactorily for some time. The movie as a whole is well done, but there's little in it to make it stand out after more than a century.
Lee has a heart attack. She heads off to the city where she falls into the bad company of gangster John Dillon. Meanwhile, Johnson welcomes into his house his relative, the Reverend John Bowers. Dillon and his gang try to rob Johnson's home. They shoot his butler, and Dillon is scheduled to be hanged. Miss Huff, however, is taken under the care of Bowers, and the two are getting along like a house on fire, which displeases Kate Lester, who hopes to marry her daughter off to Johnson's heir.
Will Dillon escape and try to kill Miss Huff? Will there be a strawberry mark that proves who she is? Will things turn out happily? It's a trite melodrama, true enough, but John B. O'Brien's direction is pretty good, and if the camerawork is not dazzling, the editing is efficient. The performances are good and naturalistic, except for Johnson. Miss Huff's screen career faded out after 1920, almost certainly a victim of the interest in pretty, innocent leading ladies, although her stage career continued satisfactorily for some time. The movie as a whole is well done, but there's little in it to make it stand out after more than a century.
