The Root of Evil
A rich man's daughter marries against his will, and is disinherited. A manipulative attorney contrives to keep the rich man poisoned against his daughter in order to make himself heir.
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"In our opinion, the most interesting picture of the week. It seems, at the start, the same old situation. The rich man's daughter has secretly married her father's secretary and he finds it out and disowns her. Then we have the widow and her child coming home in time to thwart the designs of the man who is scheming to obtain the old man's fortune. It is apparently the same old story and yet how different, how much more humanly convincing than the best pictures of this story that we can remember. Its vitality comes from the peculiar characteristics of the persons; they are not ty..."
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A rich man's daughter marries against his will, and is disinherited. A manipulative attorney contrives to keep the rich man poisoned against his daughter in order to make himself heir.