The Temptress (1912) Online
An unemployed secretary, reduced to starvation, with his wife at death's door, sees an advertisement for a private secretary to Mr. Multon. He applies for and secures the position, mainly by the assistance of Mrs. Multon, who thinks she sees in him an easy victim to her wiles. Installed in his new position Mrs. Multon takes advantage of the absence of her husband to practice the blandishments upon her unsuspecting prey. Time after time does this cunning Eve endeavor to make the new secretary bring dishonor upon his family, but without avail. At last, goaded to desperation by her charms having no effect, she employs cunning as an aid to deceit, and creates a scene, in the midst of which her husband rushes into the room and finds his wife in a disheveled and agitated condition, which makes him only too ready to give credence to he story. The employee is sent about his business and the woman, to make her revenge more complete, writes a letter, which falls into the hands of the ...
Original Danish title is undetermined.
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