The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’
The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ - was released on: 24 August 1914.
The movie had an excellent cast consisting of:
- Henry B. Walthall… The Nephew
- Spottiswoode Aitken… The Uncle
- Blanche Sweet… His Sweetheart
- George Siegmann… The Italian
- Ralph Lewis… The Detective
- Mae Marsh… The Maid
- Robert Harron… The Grocery Boy
- George Beranger(as George A. Berranger)
- Josephine Crowell… Sweetheart’s Mother
Here is a summary of the film’s plot:
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man turns to thoughts of murder. Experiencing a series of visions, he sees murder as a normal course of events in life and kills his uncle. Tortured by his conscience, his future sanity is uncertain as he is assailed by nightmarish visions of what he has done. Written by Doug Sederberg {vornoff@sonic.net}