For a Necklace (1907)

• 71%
• 1907

A husband desires to buy a necklace for his wife, but the price is too stiff, and the jewels are sent back, leaving the lady in a rather bad temper as a consequence. At a friend's house, the pair notice the necklace on the throat of their hostess. The latter presently sends her maid to put it in her room, and overcome with the desire for possession, the man follows, and is abstracting the necklace when the owner enters. He murders her and goes off with the jewels, and when his wife enters, presents them to her. However, his intense remorse so affects him that he imagines his wife to be his victim, and in terror flings himself from the window. The film ends dramatically as the dying man turns to attract his wife's attention, but she is occupied in inspecting herself and the necklace in the glass and takes no notice of him.