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After Five
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Edward Abeles [Ted Ewing], Sessue Hayakawa [Oki, his valet], Betty Schade [Nora Hildreth], Jane Darwell [Mrs. Russell, ‘Aunt Diddy’], Theodore Roberts [Bruno Schwartz], Monroe Salisbury [Sam Parker], James Neil (James Neill), Ernest Joy, Jode Mullaly, Ernest Garcia
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by William C. de Mille, from the play After Five by William C. de Mille and Cecil B. DeMille. Cinematography by Alfredo Gondolfi (Alfred Gandolfi). Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 25 January 1915 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LU4276]. Released 28 January 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Some location cinematogaphy was taken at Bear Lake Valley, California. The play was subsequently filmed as The Night Club (1925).
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Ted Ewing, a young New Yorker, is the guardian of Nora Hildreth, with whom he is in love. He invests her fortune of $50,000 and an equal amount of his own money (constituting almost his entire property) in a stock exchange speculation. When this speculation apparently fails he seeks to reimburse the girl by taking out a life insurance policy in her favor and then killing himself. But, as the policy has a clause invalidating it in case of suicide, he has to arrange an “accidental death” for himself, and, to this end, enters into an arrangement with the chief of the S.S.S., a blackmailing society which has already threatened his life. The humorous complications really begin when it develops that the money has not been lost but doubled, so that Ted, instead of wishing to die, has every reason imaginable for wishing to live. It is, however, almost impossible to break his sworn pact with the S.S.S. and his own Japanese valet, to whom he gave the money to pay for his death, refuses to divert the money from the one use to which it has been pledged. The manner in which Ted manages to escape from his own plots against his own life, and the details of his romance with Nora form the concluding episodes of this highly amusing photodrama.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Criminals: Black Hand, Mafia - Death: Suicide (Hara-kiri) - Family: Aunts - Japanese (Abroad) - USA: California: Bear Lake Valley
Listing updated: 10 December 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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