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The Majesty of the Law
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Julia Crawford Ivers
Cast: George Fawcett [Judge Randolph Kent], Jane Wolfe [Mrs. Kent], William Desmond [Jackson Morgan Kent], Myrtle Stedman [Virginia Fairfax], John Oaker [Lloyd Fairfax], Charles Ruggles (Charlie Ruggles) [Lawrence Evans], Herbert Standing [Colonel Monroe]
Bosworth, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers. Presented by Bosworth, Incorporated. / © 9 August 1915 by Bosworth, Incorporated [LU6048]. Released 26 August 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Ruggles’ film debut.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Judge Randolph Kent repudiates his son when the latter makes no satisfactory explanation of how the jewels which were stolen at Mrs. Monroe’s ball came to be found in his coat pocket. That young Kent, heretofore the idol of the little city and the apple of his father’s eye, was, after all, hopeless from the beginning seemed proven when he was later indicted for embezzlement. By an irony of fate Judge Kent himself is forced to hear the case, and on considering the incontrovertible evidence instantly gives his son the maximum sentence, ten years in state’s prison. But before the sheriff starts with the condemned youth it is discovered that young Kent has all along been sacrificing himself to shield others. Innocent himself, he protected the thief of the jewels at the Monroes’ because it was the brother of the girl he was about to marry, and shouldered the crime of the real embezzler because the latter had befriended Kent and got him his position at the bank when the Monroe scandal had made him an outcast.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm nitrate positive, 35mm acetate duplicate negative].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 January 2024.
References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc.
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