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Forgive Us Our Trespasses
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Gaston Méliès and/or Robert Goodman?
Cast: Danny Reulos [little Danny], [?] Francis Ford?
G. Méliès production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 10 October 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot at Santa Paula, California. The film was released in the United Kingdom by J.F. Brockliss, Incorporated, on 29 March 1913.
Drama.
Synopsis: [From Méliès promotional materials] Little Danny, living alone with his father, is taught to say the Lord’s Prayer every night and to live accordingly. Father and son become acquainted with their pretty neighbor, Mary, towards whom the father is inclined to show more than a friendly interest. Mary takes the lad to town on the day a theatrical troupe arrives, and one of the actresses recognizes in Danny her son. Years back she had gone astray, and husband and wife were estranged. Mary nobly puts her own feelings aside to effect a reconciliation, but without avail. Danny’s father is stern, and not till the child repeats the prayer “Forgive . . . . . as we Forgive” is he softened and the home completed. // [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? John Henson and his sister Mary are surprised one morning in learning that they have new neighbors in Mr. Gray and his son, Danny. Danny is taught to say the Lord’s Prayer every night and to practice its principles in his daily life. In his play one day, Danny is hurt and the father, in distraction, calls upon Mary for aid. She gives the care that only woman can give to a sick person, and the acquaintance commences, so that later, when Mr. Gray is seriously injured at the stone works, she nurses him back to health. It is plain to be seen that Mr. Gray is beginning to evince more than admiration for his pretty neighbor. Mary takes Danny to town on the day that a theatrical troupe arrives and one of the actresses recognizes in the lad her little son. She tells Mary and is taken to Mr. Gray’s house, but he will not receive her, because shortly after Danny’s birth she left his home and went astray. Danny is soon taught by Mary to love his mother, but the kind neighbor is not equally successful with the father. Finally Danny brings about an unexpected meeting between father and mother, and, on bended knee repeats the prayer his daddy had so often taught him: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive . . .” The father touched by these words from his son, repents his sternness and receives his wife once more unto their home.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 26 May 2024.
References: Thompson-Star p. 232 : ClasIm-226 p. 55 : Website-IMDb.
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