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The Wheels of Destiny (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

The Wheels of Destiny (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

Hart was down on his luck, hungry and penniless, when Pietro Ravelli befriended him. The well-to-do Italian gave him a full meal and then conducted him through devious alley ways to an old ramshackle house, which at that late hour of the ...See moreHart was down on his luck, hungry and penniless, when Pietro Ravelli befriended him. The well-to-do Italian gave him a full meal and then conducted him through devious alley ways to an old ramshackle house, which at that late hour of the evening was swarming with Ravelli's fellow countrymen. Hart scented one of those Italian secret societies which exist in defiance of the law. Urged to cast in his lot with theirs, however, a spirit of recklessness, born of the misfortunes of many bitter weeks, goaded him into accepting these desperadoes' confidences. He learned that the mano nera preyed upon people of wealth whom it blackmailed into paying large sums for their personal safety. About a fortnight later, Hart was instructed by Ravelli to secure a position in the household of Judge Durand, a retired justice who had previously imprisoned several members of the mano nera. Ignorant of Ravelli's motives, Hart applied to the Judge and was soon made his private secretary. He fell in love with Alice Durand, his employer's daughter, but on the very evening that he was intending to ask her to marry him, he received peremptory orders from Ravelli to report to headquarters. There he was commanded, under threat of death, to kill the father of the girl he loved. At the risk of his own life, he revealed the plot to the Judge and informed the police. All the members of the society were arrested except Ravelli who made a dramatic escape, and Hart's friends, fearful for his safety, persuaded him to go abroad. A few months later, however, news reached him on Judge Durand's death. The same announcement came to the ever watchful eyes of Ravelli, who, knowing that his betrayer would return to comfort Alice, hid himself in the vicinity of the Durand house. The evening of the lovers' reunion, a desperate character skulked in the street opposite the Durand grounds. There were voices beyond the hedge, Pietro Ravelli crept nearer, leveling his gun. Then out of the sense shadow of the drive, rushed a huge automobile. It reaped down the crouching man. His stifled groan was drowned in the whirring of the wheels of destiny into the darkness. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Eugene Pallette Actor Actor See fewer	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Billie West Alice Durand Alice Durand See fewer	The Wolf Man (1915)
Spottiswoode Aitken Judge Durand Judge Durand See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)