# Lord and the Peasant - Die Heimkehr des Reisenden - J. Searle Dawley, 1912, Edison Manufacturing Company

Title: Lord and the Peasant

Duration of this copy: 00:08:52

Synopsis1:

Melodrama about a couple who are in love, but who are driven apart by poverty. Mary is in love with a young farmer, who goes abroad to earn money. During his absence, Mary's family is assailed by disease and poverty. Since she has not heard from her beloved for a long time, she marries a wealthy gentleman. When the farmer finally does return, he finds a married woman instead of a bride-to-be.

Synopsis2:

In a peasant's cot we find a fair, young maiden who is loved by an honest, true-hearted peasant lad, while yonder stands the manor of Glenwood with its noble lord, who chanced to pass by one fair day and there noble eyes met peasant meekness and love found work a-plenty to do. But maiden thought naught of my lord o' the manor. Nor so much as gave him cause to hope that all his castles and lauds could win her heart from the true peasant lad who had gone forth in the world to win humble living for his bride to be. It was then that Dame Poverty came knocking at the peasant's door and upon her crept a fever which held the young sister close within her breast only waiting for death to knock gently at the humble cot. And still no word from the loved one in a foreign land! Had he deserted his fond-hearted lassie? Weeks passed by and still no work nor sign of the one held most dear, and then my lord of Glenwood Keep came suing for her hand. On one side poverty, silence and perhaps death to her beloved…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1912
- Runtime: 8 min
- By: J. Searle Dawley (1877 – 1949), 1912, Edison Manufacturing Company (United States)
- Genres: Silent
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lord_and_the_Peasant_-_Die_Heimkehr_des_Reisenden_-_J._Searle_Dawley,_1912,_Edison_Manufacturing_Company.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: J. Searle Dawley (1877 – 1949), 1912, Edison Manufacturing Company (United States)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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