Threads of Destiny (1914)
Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.
Director: Joseph W. Smiley
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Evelyn Nesbit as Miriam Gruenstein |
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Bernard Siegel as Isaac Gruenstein |
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Margaret Risser as Rachel Shapiro |
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Joseph W. Smiley as Ivan Russak |
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Marguerite Marsh as The Nun |
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Jack Clifford as Fedor Tomspky |
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William W. Cohill as Alexis Movak |
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Russell Thaw as Russell - Fedor's son |
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Joseph Standish as Abraham Solman |
| Writing | William H. Clifford | Writer |
| Directing | Joseph W. Smiley | Director |
