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The Girl Who Might Have Been (II) (1915)
Short | Drama, Short

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The Girl Who Might Have Been (II) (1915)

Short | Drama, Short

Firm in his belief in the existence of a Master Criminal, Detective Cheney announces his determination to run the scoundrel to earth. Liggett, the master criminal, publicly known as an eminently respectable gentleman of means, learns of ...See moreFirm in his belief in the existence of a Master Criminal, Detective Cheney announces his determination to run the scoundrel to earth. Liggett, the master criminal, publicly known as an eminently respectable gentleman of means, learns of Cheney's promise to "get him." Exerting his almost uncanny power upon Enid, his unwilling accomplice, he gives her an automatic with a silencer attached, and sends her to the detective's office to assassinate him. In an almost miraculous manner Cheney discovers the purpose of her visit and coolly frustrates it. Realizing the girl is not acting of her own volition, he gently draws from her the story of how, through no fault of her own, she has been forced to do Liggett's bidding. She refuses, however, to divulge the criminal's name. "Three- Fingered Lew," Liggett's right-hand man, learns Enid is about to "squeal" and also that she has fallen in love with the detective. At his master's order, "Three-Fingered Lew" gains admittance to Enid's home, and when Cheney, an hour later, arrives, he finds her dead with peculiar finger marks on her throat. The detective is almost crazed by grief, for that very evening he was about to ask her to marry him. Forcing himself to action, he notifies the police, and feeling positive from the fingerprints that it is the work of "Three-Fingered Lew," he secures the crook's photograph from the Rogues' Gallery, locates his man and arrests him. Lew supplies an alibi, through Liggett, and is released, but Cheney re-arrests him. With the aid of a famous hypnotist and the Third Degree, he gains a confession from Lew, incidentally implicating Liggett. The detective goes to Liggett's home, and after some thrilling adventures in that house of mystery, Liggett is killed by a fall from the roof. But there ever remains with the detective a vision of "The girl who might have been" his wife. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Harry T. Morey Cheney - a Detective Cheney - a Detective See fewer	In Honor's Web (1919)
Betty Gray Enid Langford Enid Langford See fewer	His Last Dollar (1914)
Ned Finley Liggett - a Master Criminal Liggett - a Master Criminal See fewer	O'Garry of the Royal Mounted (1915)
Edward Elkas Three-Fingered Lew - a Crook Three-Fingered Lew - a Crook See fewer	The Blue Bird (1918)
Paul Scardon A Detective A Detective See fewer	Partners of the Night (1920)
Frank Currier A Hypnotist A Hypnotist See fewer	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)