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The Mate of the Alden Bessie

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Calorie Rating: 17
Released: 1912-01-04
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 12 Minutes
Studios: Selig Polyscope Company,


The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. Days passed upon the vast expanse of ocean, and their food was all gone and death near, when land was sighted and their boat was cast up on a coral reef, and they with difficulty made the shore. Fear of death was soon supplanted in the heart of the captain's daughter by fear of a man loving her all too well. The mate, seeing this and realizing the strength of his passion, decided to live on the side of the island, but as the months passed away his loneliness overcame him and he made his way to where she sat reading. He looked over her shoulder, and saw that she read the marriage service.

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Cast

Frank Clark
Character: The Ship's Captain
Bessie Eyton
Character: The Captain's Daughter
Hobart Bosworth
Character: The First Mate

Tom Santschi
Character: The 'Sea Lawyer'
Frank Opperman
Character: The Man at the Wheel


Production and Crew

Hobart Bosworth
Scenario Writer