Director Lew Landers (1901)

After Jean Thatcher has been injured in a car accident, her father, Judge Thatcher, and beau, Jerry implore retired surgeon, Dr. Richard Vollin to perform a delicate operation to restore her to health. Vollin’s insensitivity to human suffering at first refuses, as just then he was too busy negotiating the sale of his Edgar Allan Poe book collection to admit distraction. But a personal visit by Judge Thatcher, who frantically relates to him that in the opinion of Vollin’s former hospital colleagues, only Vollin has the brilliance to perform the operation successfully, eventually pleases his vanity enough to change his mind; he saves her life. He befriends the spirited and ...