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The Only Way Out (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

The Only Way Out (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

Bertha Holt, a stenographer, is alone in New York. She becomes acquainted with John Rawls, who tricks her into going to a hotel with him telling her he will get a minister to marry them. Bertha, who believes in Rawls, agrees. Rawls returns...See moreBertha Holt, a stenographer, is alone in New York. She becomes acquainted with John Rawls, who tricks her into going to a hotel with him telling her he will get a minister to marry them. Bertha, who believes in Rawls, agrees. Rawls returns without the minister and Bertha guesses his real purpose. She struggles with Rawls and escapes, leaving her pocketbook with her name card behind. A year later Bertha is engaged as stenographer by Edward Gray and they are deeply in love. Gray proposes to her one day, her face clouding, as a vision of her escape from Rawls appears. Gray pleads with Bertha and she finally accepts him. Four years later Bertha, now happily married, has a little daughter, Clara. Rawls writes a note to Bertha, telling her if she will come to his apartments he will return her pocketbook. Bertha receives the note and decides to go. As Bertha enters. Rawls' landlady, who is working in the kitchen, hears a shot and runs to the door of the apartment. Not receiving an answer, she rushes to the street and tells the crowd. They break down the door and find Rawls dead. A policeman telephones and Reed and Green, two detectives are detailed. They arrive and investigate the case, everything points to suicide. Reed, after all have gone, finds a lady's pocketbook with Bertha's name in it. He decides that Bertha knows something about the case and he telephones to her that he will come to dinner. Reed arrives and sees that Bertha and Gray are nervous about something. After the meal is finished they go to the library where, in the absence of Gray he gets Bertha to confess that she killed Rawls. Gray, who has been listening behind the curtains, tells Reed that he killed him. Reed, who is a friend of Gray's is about to give him a chance to escape when a maid enters with a card announcing Green, the other detective, and Reed is forced to arrest Gray. At the trial Gray takes the stand and tells how Rawls tricked Bertha into going to a hotel; why he gave him a position of trust in his business; how Rawls tried to force himself on his wife; how he betrayed his business secrets and one day he found a note from Rawls to his wife and went to Rawls' den. In the struggle that followed, Rawls drew a revolver to kill Gray but he grabbed his wrist. The gun was discharged and Rawls was killed. How to save his wife's name he strengthened the evidence of suicide. The jury bring in a verdict of not guilty. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Betty Brice Bertha Holt (as Rosetta Brice) Bertha Holt (as Rosetta Brice) See fewer	Michael Strogoff (1914)
John Ince Detective Reed Detective Reed See fewer	The Great Jewel Robbery (1925)
Walter Marshall Detective Green Detective Green See fewer	Under the Fiddler's Elm (1915)
Francis Joyner Edward Gray Edward Gray See fewer	Mr. Housekeeper (1916)
Walter Law John Rawls John Rawls See fewer	Camille (1917)