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The Higher Destiny

7.0 20 mins Drama   1916
The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company  
Director(s): Charles Brabin

Release Date: 02 Sat, Sep 1916

A physician advises Helen Blair to seek a different climate. She is without money. Philip Cobb, her daughter's sweetheart, tells them his employer, Richard Standing, has refused him an increase. Thus Mrs. Blair discovers the whereabouts of Standing, whom she rejected years before to marry Blair. Standing treats her savagely when she appeals to him. His son, John, overhears the conversation and, seeing the girl, forces them to take the necessary funds to save the mother. The father discovers his love affair and sends him to Honolulu. The jealous Cobb gets a letter from a friend there and forges a new note telling that young Standing has become a drunkard. Ailene and Cobb are married. John Standing returns after months and he and Ailene learn of the deception. Cobb repents his deceit and drowns himself.

Casts of The Higher Destiny

Warda Howard

as Helen Blair

Sidney Ainsworth

as Richard Standing

Edward Arnold

as John Standing

Patrick Calhoun

as Philip Cobb

Gertrude Glover

as Ailene Blair

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