The Diamond from the Sky
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The Diamond from the Sky was a popular 1915 American silent short classic adventure film serial directed by Jacques Jaccard and William Desmond Taylor starring Charlotte Burton, William Russell, and Irving Cummings.
[edit] Plot
"The Heritage of Hate". The prologue depicts the finding of “The Diamond From the Sky” which later becomes the heirloom of the Stanley family, while the two reels of the first chapter show the intense rivalry between Colonel Arthur Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley, Virginia aristocrats and descendants of Lord Arthur Stanley, two hundred years later.
When a girl is born to the young wife of Colonel Arthur Stanley, the latter, to retain an earldom and “The Diamond From the Sky,” buys a new born Gypsy baby boy and substitutes it for his own babe. Judge Lamar Stanley visits Colonel Arthur Stanley’s home to see the child just as Hagar, the gypsy woman, bursts into the room to demand her boy, and the colonel falls unconscious across the library table.
[edit] Other cast
- Lottie Pickford .... Esther Stanley, the Gypsy Heroine
- Eugenie Forde .... Hagar Harding
- George Periolat .... Luke Lovell
- Orral Humphrey .... Marmaduke Smythe
- William Tedmarsh .... Quabba, the Hunchback
- Jack Hoxie .... Matt Hardigan (as Hart Hoxie)
- Lillian Buckingham
- George Field
- Rhea Mitchell
- Roy Stewart
- Charles Watt
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