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The League of the Future (1916)
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The League of the Future (1916)

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Lord John Hasle still resides near the Gray Sisterhood. Though he is loath to call in the police, he is convinced that there are some concerned with the Sisterhood who are conniving against Maida Odell, who has joined to devote a year to ...See moreLord John Hasle still resides near the Gray Sisterhood. Though he is loath to call in the police, he is convinced that there are some concerned with the Sisterhood who are conniving against Maida Odell, who has joined to devote a year to charity. In New York, Nora Esterbrook, an old school friend of Maida, is affianced to Steve Hardy, a hot-tempered, jealous young man. Philip Wharton, the prosecuting attorney, is in love with Nora. Steve becomes jealous of Wharton and on an evening, after he has quarreled with his girl, visits Wharton in his office and instructs him to cause his attentions to Nora. There is a quarrel, and Steve's gun, accidentally fired, is taken from him. Steve departs. Several hours later Philip Wharton is discovered dead in the office. Near him is the exploded gun belonging to Steve. The picture of Nora also is found and that with the testimony of the janitor, who testifies to having heard a shot and seen Steve leave the building, leads to Steve's arrest for ***. Nora seeks out her friend, Maida, for aid and advice. Maida and Nora visit Lord John and interest him in the case. Lord John is only too glad to befriend the girl he loves. It is shown that the head sister is loath to allow Maida to leave the Sisterhood. She informs Rameses, her brother, of what has happened. Rameses is an Egyptian hypnotist, who has a mission of revenge to carry out against Maida's family. At the detective office Lord John learns that Wharton had received threatening letters, advising him to cease his prosecution of one Mike Dorgan. These letters are signed by the "League of the Future." With the chief of police's permission. Lord John visits the scene of the crime, and discovers evidence of another bullet having been fired. The bullet from Steve's gun is embedded in the wall at an angle which precludes the belief that this gun fired the fatal bullet. But in the bookshelf, buried among books, Lord John finds another bullet, which, according to the angle from which it was fired, must have come through the window from the roof of an opposite office building. Meanwhile, according to Lord John's instructions, Maida in her capacity as a charity sister, has visited Mike Dorgan. She informed him of the death of Wharton and noted his satisfaction. As she is about to leave, she sees a man named Tony, who is waiting to visit Dorgan. With the keeper, she follows him to the cell, where, unobserved, she notes that he wears a coat which does not match his trousers. Lord John has, during this time, investigated the roof on the opposite building. He discovers a piece of clothing on the fire escape evidently torn from a pair of trousers. Maida joins Lord John and reports her success. She examines the piece of cloth Lord John has found and declares that, if she remembers right, it matches closely the pants worn by the stranger visiting Dorgan. Tony is captured. At the detective's office Lord John explains to the group about the finding which led to Tony's capture. Together they visited his room while out and found there the coat matching the cloth found on the fire escape. Also they found bullets which matched the one found by Lord John in Wharton's office and overlooked by the police. Lord John startled Tony by a demand to know where and how he tore the suit. Tony is finally made to confess. He tells how he was elected in the "League of the Future" to strike the blow against Wharton; how he found his way to the top of the building and fired the fatal shot, using a Maxim silencer, and how he later hid the gun down a manhole. The next morning he read that Steve had been apprehended. This gave him courage and he could not resist the temptation to visit Dorgan and gloat over his success. Lord John tries to learn more of the "League of the Future," but Tony, afraid to incur the League's enmity, will tell nothing. Nora arrives and is taken into the arms of Steve, freed through Tony's confession. Lord John accompanies Maida back to the Gray Sisterhood and tries to dissuade her from returning. But Maida is unconvinced that the sisterhood is an evil organization. Lord John makes record in his journal of his fear that perhaps the mysterious Rameses is back of the "League of the Future." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
William Garwood Lord John Haselmore Lord John Haselmore See fewer	Ruy Blas (1914)
Stella Razeto Maida Odell Maida Odell See fewer	Memories (1914)
Albert MacQuarrie Rameses Rameses See fewer	The Viking (1928)
Laura Oakley Head Sister Head Sister See fewer	The Black Box (1915)
Mina Cunard Nora Esterbrook (as Margaret Mayburn) Nora Esterbrook (as Margaret Mayburn) See fewer	The Broken Coin (1915)
Juan de la Cruz Steve Hardy Steve Hardy See fewer	The Flirt (I) (1916)
T.D. Crittenden Philip Wharton Philip Wharton See fewer	The Old Nest (1921)