The Man Beneath
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Director William Worthington Screenplay L.V. Jefferson Producer Sessue Hayakawa | 6/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Story by Edmund Mitchell Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date July 6, 1919 (1919-07-06) (USA) Based on Only a Nigger
by Edmund Mitchell Writer Edmund Mitchell (novel), L.V. Jefferson (scenario) Cast Sessue Hayakawa (Dr. Chindi Ashutor), Helen Jerome Eddy (Kate Erskine), Pauline Curley (Mary Erskine), John Gilbert (James Bassett), Fontaine La Rue (Countess Petite Florence), Wedgwood Nowell (François) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The man beneath
The Man Beneath is a 1919 American silent crime drama film directed by William Worthington and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation. An incomplete copy of the film is in the collection of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
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Plot
As described in a film magazine, Kate Erskine (Eddy) and her sister Mary (Curley) love Dr. Chindi Ashutor (Hayakawa) and James Bassett (Gilbert), respectively, the latter having been college chums, one being a noted physician while the other pursuing no occupation as yet. Mary and Bassett become engaged while Dr. Ashutor goes to aid his countrymen in plague-stricken India. While he is away Bassett receives a summons from the Black Hand, an order he joined in his youth for adventure. Feeling his life in danger, he goes to Dr. Ashutor in India and with his aid almost succeeds in establishing his feigned death as a reality. However, the spies of the order follow them to Scotland and to the home of the Erskines. Here Dr. Ashutor is instrumental in finally ridding Bassett from the menace of the order. Mary and Bassett then marry, while the situation of Kate and Dr. Ashutor remains undecided.
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