The Amazing Wife

The Amazing Wife

★ 0.0IMDb Score
Released:1919-04-07
Genre:Drama
Duration:60 min
Director:Ida May Park
Actors:Mary MacLaren, Frank Mayo, Ethel Lynne, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Seymour Zeliff
Production:Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Overview:

Through a series of tragic circumstances Cicely Osborne finds herself alone in the world after her new husband is slain. Taking note that a lieutenant with the same name as her husband has died in the war, she presents herself to his aristocratic parents as his widow and soon ingratiates herself. Only John's disabled cousin Philip suspects her. John returns, having only been wounded, and seeing that his mother loves Cicely, he continues the masquerade, slowly falling in love with Cicely. When Philip threatens exposure the cousins fight causing John's war wound to reopen. Thinking that he is dying, John summons a priest, who solemnizes his union with Cicely. John later recovers and the two resume their life together.

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