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A Modern Enoch Arden
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Four reels
Directed by Clarence Badger and Charles Avery
Cast: Joe Jackson [the lazy husband], Viva Edwards (Vivian Edwards) [the wife], Betty Marsh [the baby], Mack Swain [Ambrose, the lawyer], Dora Rodgers (Fontaine La Rue) [Ambrose’s secretary], Hank Mann [Ambrose’s rival], Josef Swickard [the man with a letter], Tom Kennedy [the ship captain], Grover Ligon [the butler]
The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. Cinematography by R. Dale Armstrong. / Released 16 January 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA at two reels.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? “A Modern Enoch Arden” returns to his home to find his wife married to another man. He recognizes his wife, but doesn’t give himself away to her. Viva Edwards, as the wife, has married a lawyer named Mack Swain. He cleverly rescues his own child from a runaway motorboat, and then finds out that the tramps with whom he is associated are going to kidnap the child with the connivance of Swain and at the instigation of a grafting lawyer, Hank Mann. He reveals his identity to his former wife and tries to convince her of the villainy of Swain. She does not believe him and when she sees him near a tree, where some money was to be paid, accuses him of being in the plot. He afterwards squares himself by making a daring rescue of the child by entering a hut, just before it is blown up with dynamite. His wife takes him back and Swain goes to jail.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Children: Babies - Rigging - Ships
Listing updated: 28 October 2022.
References: Kerr-Silent p. 156; Lahue-Kops pp. 90h, 156; Slide-Aspects p. 22 : Website-IMDb.
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