Dawn Westley a young opera singer, is in love with Robert Joyce. Dawn becomes interested in Leppo, a young Italian violinist, whom she and Joyce find playing in the streets, and he becomes ... See full summary
The Warning Cry (1914) Online
Dawn Westley a young opera singer, is in love with Robert Joyce. Dawn becomes interested in Leppo, a young Italian violinist, whom she and Joyce find playing in the streets, and he becomes Dawn's protégé. Joyce proposes to Dawn, but she refuses him, feeling that such a step would hinder her operatic career. He no sooner leaves her when she changes her mind and writes him a note to return, which she intends to send the following morning. That night she encounters a burglar in her home, and the shock brings on temporary paralysis of the throat, which causes her to lose the faculty of speech. When she realizes that she cannot speak, perhaps for years, she tears up the note to Joyce and leaves for her summer home, in company with her mother and faithful Leppo. Some months later she accidentally encounters Joyce and the love tangle is straightened out, but not until Leppo, who has taken a decided dislike to Joyce, tries to take his life. He is stopped by Dawn who, through fright, regains ...
| Cast overview: | |||
 | Francelia Billington | - | Dawn Wesley |
 | Margaret Howard | - | Mrs. Wesley |
 | Lamar Johnstone | - | Robert Joyce (as Lamar Johnston) |
 | Jack Pickford | - | Leppo |
 | Josef Swickard | - | Cregan (as Joe Swickard) |
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