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Le dernier regard
Also known as The Last Look in the USA
(1909) France
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes production; distributed by Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA as The Last Look by Pathé Frères on 8 January 1910; in a split-reel with His Opponent’s Card (1910).
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? This is a powerful subject showing how an unusual occurrence discovered the perpetrator of a foul murder. A wealthy man highly thought of in his community had a worthless nephew who was constantly worrying him for financial assistance. The old man had done everything for the ungrateful boy; bad put him in fine positions which he invariably threw up, as work had ever been distasteful to him. The uncle had now come to the end of his patience, and after a particularly disgraceful occurrence in which his nephew bad taken part, decided to cut the boy off without a cent, but to leave his entire fortune to a Home for the Aged. He told his nephew of what he had done and the worthless scamp decided then to get possession of this will and destroy it. We see him, therefore, in the dead of the night stealing into his uncle's house and taking the will out and, lighting a match to it, burns it up. Just at this moment his uncle appears at the door of the room with a lamp in his hand, and the boy on seeing him leaps towards him and fells him with a single blow. In the morning when the corpse is found by the servant, the authorities are called in and no one is more noisy in his grief than the worthless nephew. On examining the body the coroner sees that the eye bears the impression of some human figure and looking more closely he sees it is that of a young man. Deeply interested, he sends for the different members of the dead man's household and on seeing the nephew be immediately recognizes him as the one whose figure is imprinted on the dead man’s eye. (The spectator is here shown the eye at close range with the figure of the murderer it printed on it.) When the youth sees that he is caught he breaks down, confesses all and is carried away by the officers of the law.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [France]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 23 January 2025.
References: MovPicWorld-19100108 p. 20 : Website-IMDb.
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