The Gift Supreme

剧情简介

Bradford Vinton, son of a wealthy family, comes to Boggs Court, the lowest of slums, in an attempt to find relief from his dreary social life. There he meets Sylvia Alden, a singer in a local mission, and they fall in love. Bradford Chandler Vinton, the boy's father, is a cold-blooded financier, and when learning of his son's love for a slum girl, plans to break up the relationship. He hires a crooked lawyer to fabricate false evidence against Sylvia, but Vinton learns of his father's plot and goes to his father to denounce him. Vinton is disinherited, and when he returns to the mission Sylvia has left. He sets up a restaurant in the area, where Merney Stagg, a gangster, stabs Vinton one night while in a drunken rage. Vinton is rushed to the hospital where it is discovered that only an immediate blood transfusion can save his. One of the nurses sees him and is shocked, for the girl is Sylvia, now working in the hospital. She volunteers to donate her own blood and Vinton is saved. His mother and father are brought to the hospital, and when his father realizes the great gift that Sylvia has given his son, he consents to the young couple's marriage. The film was released to the 16mm rental market in the 1920's, and it is possible that complete prints survive in the hands of private collectors; however, to date, only the first reel is known to exist. Various sources list the release date as March 30, April 12, or May 9, 1920. The film was copyrighted on March 30, 1920.