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The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
UNITED STATES · 1910

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

D.W. Griffith
childhood sweethearts rescue at sea fate and destiny infidelity small village life
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Synopsis

In a quaint fishing village Bill and Mary are childhood sweethearts. Ten years roll by, and the boy, now a young man, gives the girl a ring and they now renew their vows. They are both very happy until fate interferes. Bill, while strolling on the shore, espies a raft with an object on it that looks like a human being, far out at sea. He swims to the raft and finds an exhausted fisherman lying pr

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