Sep 21, 1910
12 min
Full-HD

The Oath and the Man (1910)

A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, however.

Category

History Drama Romance

Country

United States of America

Companies

American Mutoscope & Biograph

Henry B. Walthall

Henri Prevost

Florence Barker

Madame Prevost

W. Chrystie Miller

A Priest

Francis J. Grandon

A Nobleman

Jack Pickford

The Messenger

Marion Leonard

Arthur V. Johnson

Jeanie Macpherson

Aristocrat

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