The Toast of Death (1915)
40m
Running Time
August 12, 1915Release Date
Plot.
Ballerina Poppea is adored by all the men of Calcutta, especially British soldier Captain Drake and Indian PrinceYar Khan. Because of his title and wealth, Poppea decides to marry the prince, while keeping Drake as a lover. But the prince eventually discovers what she's up to and goes out of his way to catch the adulterers together. He takes two glasses of wine, pours arsenic into one, and tells Poppea to choose which glass each man will drink. She innocently picks the poisoned glass for Drake and he dies horribly. The prince disposes of the body and drives Poppea out into the desert.
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The Toast of Death is a 1915 silent era drama/romance motion picture released by Mutual Film Corporation starring Louise Glaum, Harry Keenan, and Herschel Mayall.
Directed by Thomas H. Ince and produced by the New York Motion Picture Company, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.
Although contemporary sources list Thomas Ince as the director, modern sources give directorial credit to Scott Sidney.
One of the early five-reel feature length silent movies, The Toast of Death was filmed at Inceville Studio in Topanga Canyon near the Pacific Ocean.
The film marked Glaum's first role as a "vamp" and her first starring role in the new features of the day.