Helen of Four Gates

Helen of Four Gates 1920 is a British silent film melodrama, directed by cinema pioneer Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor in a dual role as mother and daughter, James Carew and Gerald Ames.

For over 80 years Helen of Four Gates was believed to be irretrievably lost, until an original 35mm print was discovered in a film vault in Canada in 2007.Helen Taylor marries a young man who has poisoned her mind against her other suitor Abel Mason Carew by convincing her that there is hereditary madness in the Mason family. Within two years Helens husband is dead and she is dying. She entrusts her baby daughter to Abel to bring up, as she has no family to call on. Abel agrees to take the baby, but Helen does not realise that it is out of desire to gain revenge on her for rejecting him rather than through any altruistic motive. ........

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