The Mate of the Alden Bessie

1912
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
4.2| 0h12m| NR| en| Drama
Storyline

The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. Days passed upon the vast expanse of ocean, and their food was all gone and death near, when land was sighted and their boat was cast up on a coral reef, and they with difficulty made the shore. Fear of death was soon supplanted in the heart of the captain's daughter by fear of a man loving her all too well. The mate, seeing this and realizing the strength of his passion, decided to live on the side of the island, but as the months passed away his loneliness overcame him and he made his way to where she sat reading. He looked over her shoulder, and saw that she read the marriage service.

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  • The Mate of the Alden Bessie Cast
Bessie Eyton as The Captain's Daughter
Hobart Bosworth as The First Mate
Tom Santschi as The 'Sea Lawyer'
Frank Opperman as The Man at the Wheel