Tragedy of the Mill (1910)
Directed by Charles Urban
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
The outcome of this Eclipse production was tipped off by its title. The heroine, a mill-owner's daughter, rejects her hometown sweetheart in favor of a handsome soldier. The jilted suitor exacts revenge by waylaying the soldier and beating the man with his own sword. Coming upon the wounded soldier, the girl summons the community to capture her ex-lover. Escaping his pursuers, the assailant leaps into the stream in front of the mill and is cut to ribbons by the mill-wheel. Described as "intensely dramatic" by Variety, the film benefited from first-rate cinematography.