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At the inn, a group of sailors is discovered carousing. With one exception they prepare to leave. This one attempts to make love to the innkeeper's wife; is repulsed; leaves vowing ... See full summary
At the inn, a group of sailors is discovered carousing. With one exception they prepare to leave. This one attempts to make love to the innkeeper's wife; is repulsed; leaves vowing vengeance. On shipboard, the sullen seaman lays careful plans, leaves the vessel and later makes away with the innkeeper's baby girl. We next see him, with the baby wrapped in a piece of sailcloth, on the road to the high rocks overhanging the ocean. Arrived here he, unknown to himself, is observed by fishermen as he hurls his burden over the cliffs. He now hastens to the skiff which brought him to land. Here at command of one of the fishermen, their dog attacks him and secures his hat. Meantime the good people have sent a courageous youth over the cliff and effected the rescue of the child, whom they forthwith carry back to her mother at the inn. With the cap as evidence, the culprit is readily found and taken into custody.

Original French title is undetermined.

Released in the US as a split reel along with Cadres fleuris (1910).

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    • Author: Tat
    Perhaps the writer may be alone in his opinion, but he confesses that he can see no reason for the existence of a film of this type. To see a baby hurled from a cliff is neither educational nor amusing. To be sure the sullen sailor gets his deserts and the baby is saved, but who is benefited in any way by seeing the film? It is not often that a film from this house seems to deserve criticism, but this one is so palpably useless that one cannot refrain from expressing an opinion about it. There are plenty of good manly subjects which do not require the attempted brutal murder of a helpless baby to make them interesting; moreover the action in this film and also the scenes are unconvincing. - The Moving Picture World, June 4, 1910
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