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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.
Oct 12, 1914
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Drama

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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.

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CAST

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
Directed by John Francis Dillon

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
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Production
Favorite Players Film Co.
Country
US
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