A Slave to Drink (1909)

• 82%
• 1909
• Drama
• Sidney Olcott

This film illustrates the story of a man's struggle to overcome an inherited love for drink. Although yet a young man, the enemy of his family had already sunk its claws firmly upon James Grant. A man of superior intelligence, his habits hold him down to the lot of a common laborer in a small saw mill on the St. Johns River. About two years before the opening of the picture he had met and fallen in love with Jenny, the daughter of a small farmer, living near the saw mill. Under the influence of her great love he has succeeded in throwing off the burden of his hereditary desires. For three months he has not touched a drop of liquor. Scene I: Grant Has Broken His Pledge to Jenny. Scene II: The Inherited Thirst for Drink Overcomes Grant's Love. Scene III: The Insult. Jenny Witnesses Grant's Downfall. Scene IV: Grant Determines to Forswear Love. Scene V: Grant Resists the Tempter. Scene VI: The Fall. Grant Decides to End It All. Scene VII: At Death's Threshold. Scene VIII: Grant Departs for the Struggle. Scene IX: The Victory Won. Scene X: Five Years Later.