Movie Details
Theatrical Release:April 12th, 1914
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Majestic Motion Picture Company
The Hunchback (1914)
The Hunchback earns a scanty living as a tinker traveling from house to house but on account of his deformity there is no one who cares for him Although a great lover of children they flee at his approach Taking pity on a little girl whose doll has been broken he spends all his earnings to replace her plaything and in consequence the people with whom he boards order him out Tired and despairing he gets unobserved into a freight car and is carried to a western mining town There the wanderer finds friends in a miner and his little girl An accident renders the little girl fatherless and the hunchback brings the child to womanhood As the years pass the cripple grows to care for his ward but when he tells her of his love he finds that it is not returned The girl falls in love with a young prospector and the jealous hunchback seeks to take his life and then weakens in his resolve Later the prospector is in deadly danger and the hunchback decides to let him die
