Mortmain (1915)

Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database	10.05.09

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Mortmain is an accomplished musician and rare art collector. He is greatly impressed when his friend, Dr. Pennison Crisp, successfully grafts a paw from one cat onto another. Mortmain's engagement to Bella Forsythe is complicated by the fact that she is the ward of his friend, banker Gordon Russell, to whom he owes money. Worse, Russell is also in love with Bella. Russell causes Bella's brother, Tom Forsythe, to disgrace himself, and forces Mortmain into bankruptcy. Mortmain rashly says that he would like to kill Russell, but this is overheard by Flaggs, who works for Russell's lawyer. Mortmain then hears that Russell has been murdered, and in shock he faints and injures his hand. Dr. Crisp anesthetizes Mortmain with ether, which causes hallucinations, and creepily tells him that although he must amputate the hand, another can be grafted in its place. Tom Forsythe, who is suspected of the murder, agrees to Crisp's offer of $10,000, but dies during the transplant. Crisp now grafts Tom's hand onto Mortmain's arm. Mortmain gradually goes insane as Flaggs blackmails him and Bella is now afraid to be touched by him. The hand goes crazy! Mortmain awakens from his ether-induced dream to find that Tom's hand is choking Flaggs... Title: Mortmain Release Date: September 06, 1915 Genre: Drama All Genres: Drama, Horror Languages: English Country: USA Colors: Black and White Sound: Silent IMDB Rating: 0.0 Brimstone Pit Rating: 1 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With M Director(s): Theodore Marston Cast: Robert Edeson ...Mortmain Donald Hall ...Gordon Russell Edward Elkas ...Flaggs Joseph Weber ...Flynt Muriel Ostriche ...Bella Forsythe Karin Norman ...Miss Fickles James Morrison ...Tom Forsythe J. Herbert Frank ...Dr. Pennison Crisp Claude James ...Scalscope Roland Osborne ...Mortmain's Butler Helen Pillsbury ...Society Lady Remaining Cast: Writer(s): Marguerite Bertsch Arthur Chesney Train IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Blackmail, Ether, Disembodied Hand, Vivisection, Lost Film  ...[more] Keywords All: Based On Novel Seen it? Rate it Currently 1.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 1.0 out of 10.0 - 59 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST