A beautiful young woman, apparently very happy with her husband, is indiscreet enough to carry on a correspondence with a man unknown to her family. We see her go to the general delivery ... See full summary
The Blackmailer (1908) Online
A beautiful young woman, apparently very happy with her husband, is indiscreet enough to carry on a correspondence with a man unknown to her family. We see her go to the general delivery and receive a letter from her secret lover. She carelessly drops the envelope on the sidewalk, and it is picked up by a man who makes a business of blackmailing. He follows her, and as she tears up the letter and tosses it to the wind he gathers up the fragments, and taking them to his room pastes them together and learns the contents. It is a note telling her to meet her lover at their old rendezvous, he goes to the woman's house and hands her a letter in which he demands a large sum of money to keep her secret. She is horrified and overcome with the thought that her husband should ever know of her deception. She goes to her room and drinks poison, and when she does not return the villain hands the letter over to the husband. When the latter reads its contents he is dumbfounded, and hastening to his ...
Original French title is undetermined.