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- BFI identifier2670
- Date1914 (Release)
- Production countryGermany
- Production company
- SynopsisDRAMA. Lincoln Whatley invents an explosive which is wanted by the American authorities as well as other governments. He wants to sell it to the highest bidder but the capsules are stolen from his laboratory and they explode on a train in the chase that ensues. Shocked by the damaged caused, the professor renounces his work and blows up his laboratory. Rl.1. Credits (23). Professor Whatley works in his laboratory on his new explosive Damonit (Demonite). He finishes his work at the bench and goes to try it out (121). He leaves his laboratory, which is inside a bath house, and is greeted by his daughter and her fiancé (129). He throws the explosive device into the middle of the lake and all three watch as it explodes (163). Back in a study the fiancé, now in uniform, sits and writes to America about the new invention. An important man is shown in his office reading the letter. Boston is shown in and given instructions to obtain the explosive at any price. He leaves (325). At the professor's house, Lt. Turner shows two fellow officers into the professor's study and a discussion takes place. The officers leave (413). Lt. Turner insists that the mother country should have priority access to the new invention (440). A meeting of the officers is held - each man giving a secret sign before being allowed into the room. Lt. Turner is the last officer to arrive followed by a woman, Grafin Lydia Orloff. They throw dice to decide who is to solve the problem and Lydia is chosen (641). The group swears an oath (664). In his study, the Professor reads the letter from the US War Department expressing their interest but offers what the professor considers to be a pitiful sum. He shows the letter to Lt. Turner (748). His daughter and Lt. Turner argue with him and he storms off to write back withdrawing his offer (849). Meanwhile Grafin Lydia, in a café, reads an advertisement for a companion for the Professor's daughter (888). She is interviewed at the Professor's house and is taken on with the daughter's approval (960). Some time later, Lydia is `introduced' to Lt. Turner (1005). The sweethearts talk (1027). The Professor prepares Damonit capsules in his laboratory. His servant tells him there is someone to see him and he goes out and meets Boston. They go inside and Boston gives his government's offer whilst Lydia listens in on the conversation outside (1180). The Professor asks for a few days to think it over and they leave (1201). At the laboratory, Lydia is looking around and is caught by the servant. She says she thought it was a bath house and is directed elsewhere (1222). Rl.2. Lt. Turner and Lydia walk along lakeside, talking in the shade of a tree (29). Lydia comes up with an idea (50). She goes along the gang plank to the bath house and climbs down under it (69). She emerges through the floorboards and climbs into the room (93). Meanwhile Boston is looking for her in the house (106). Lydia finds the capsules and leaves (139). Boston knocks at her door again, goes in and finds she is not there (161). Lydia comes out of the laboratory and hides as Boston looks for her there (210). Back in his study, the Professor is reading papers when Boston arrives and explains what has happened (222). Cuts to Lydia walking back through the garden, hiding as the two men approach. The Professor and Boston go into the laboratory and discover the loss (271). Lydia arrives back in her room, hides the capsules under her pillow and gets under the bedclothes as she hears the men return (308). They try the door but now it's locked, so they break it down, get Lydia out of bed and begin to search her room. She puts the capsules in her mouth and the two men take her for an X-ray (372). They take the capsule out of her mouth but she escapes. Lydia follows Boston by taxi on to a train and tries to steal the capsules back from him whilst he's asleep. He wakes up and she chases him on to the roof of the train. He jumps on to the roof of a train passing the other way but the jolt causes an explosion (921). The Professor reads of Boston's death in the newspaper and renounces his work and writes to Boston's employer confirming the fact. He goes to his laboratory and sets up an explosion. He goes back and asks Lt. Turner and his daughter to watch with him, which they do (1362). (NFA Catalogue)
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- CastHans Neergard (Lincoln Whately, Chemistry Prof.)
Astrid Holm (Mary, his daughter)
Holger Holm (Leutnant Turner, her fiance)
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Title
DÄMONIT (Original)
DEMONYTE (Alternative)
Category
Fiction