The Key to Yesterday

The Key to Yesterday

A strong, stirring and absorbing story of mangled pathos, comedy and sensationalism with thrilling series at the race track, from the pen of RICHARD HARDING DAVIS and others.

NR 1914 · Drama

George Carter, a revolutionist in South America, is the exact double of Frederick Marston, a famous artist in Paris. Carter is betrayed by a comrade and is sentenced to be shot. He takes a desperate chance and escapes on board a vessel bound for London. In Paris Marston is stabbed by a model because he does not return her love. The wound incapacitates him from painting, and leaves an ugly scar, and he goes to America on a vacation. Highwaymen attack him, inflicting injuries which cause a total loss of memory. The robbers leave nothing in his pockets but the key to his Paris studio, and Marston adopts the name of Robert Anglo-Saxon.

Directed by John Francis Dillon

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Carlyle Blackwell Frederick Marston / Robert Anglo-Saxon
Edna Mayo Duska Filson
Gypsy Abbott Mrs. Marston
George Brunton St. John
John Francis Dillon Rodman
Jack Prescott Señor Roberto
John Sheehan George Steels
Ollie Kirby Undetermined Role

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