The Revolutionist (1914)

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Fred Morgan | Ethel Bracewell | Ernest G. Batley (Director)

Rest of cast:

Henry Victor | George Foley | Dick Webb | Ethyle Batley | May Austin (Play) | E. V. Edmonds (Play)

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Original Title: The King’s Romance

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The Revolutionist

Apex is releasing a stirring four-part melodrama of anarchists and royalty.

Reviewed by George Blaisdell.

The Apex Company is showing a stirring four-part melodrama of love and a throne, of royalty and of Anarchists. The Revolutionist is well staged and well played, and it is well photographed. There is an idealistic ending, one wherein a young king turns his throne over to his people and leaves his kingdom for England, where he may spend his days with his wife, a daughter of the people. The kingship was unexpected, there being at the time of the marriage two lives between the prince and the throne. Fate decreed or chance decided that it should be the hand of the wife’s brother who dealt the blow killing the king and the crown prince.

Ethel Bracewell has the role of Vera, who marries Andreas. Miss Barcewell enlists and holds the sympathy and displays strength in an emotional characterization. Prince Andreas is played by Henry Victor; his work is good. George Foley makes an impressive king. There is a good cast and a large one. Great care has been taken with the costuming.

There are strong scenes sprinkled through the story. One of these is where the prince, who has been concealing his identity, is asked by the father of Vera if he is willing to propose marriage. When the young man declines to answer he is ordered from the house, but he changes his mind and informs the clergyman if he will perform the ceremony it may be done immediately. Others are where Vera comes to the new king asking for the life of her brother, not knowing it is her husband to whom she is to appeal; or where the king goes to the cell of the brother, intending to pardon him, and is told by the dying man that his wife had never been other than faithful to him; or the closing, when the revolution has been declared, and the king elects to retire that he may have the wife of his heart rather than the one selected by his advisers.

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Scene from The Revolutionist (Apex).

Collection: Moving Picture World, January 1915

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see also The Revolutionist (1912)