Den dødes Halsbaand

A dramatic subject of considerable power, admirably interpreted by artists of the Royal Theater, Copenhagen. A girl is given a present of a necklace by her lover. She becomes an invalid, and at length the doctors give up hope and the girl passes away. She is placed in her coffin, and the young man comes in to take a last farewell of his beloved. He places a bunch of flowers on the pall, and encircles the dead girl's neck with the jewelry he has given her. Later, the undertaker's man comes to perform the last sad office; the man is poor, and the sight of the necklace recalls to his mind the poverty of his home. He argues with himself that it is a sin to bury in the ground what will be useful to others, and he resolves to take the necklace. Accordingly he goes during the night to the vault where she is entombed, unscrews the coffin, and removes the shroud. Horrors! he feels a movement and comes to the conclusion that the girl was buried alive! He goes to her lover, confesses all, and the two hasten to the vault. Meanwhile, the girl has really regained consciousness, and panic-stricken with horror gets out of her coffin. When her lover arrives he finds her senseless with terror at her grim surroundings, but in his arms she recovers. Learning the undertaker's story, she gives him the necklace, the desire for which led to her preservation from a living grave. The man, however, feels that the only thing to be done in view of the circumstances is to devote the gift to the service of the church, and this he does. A gruesome but gripping story well portrayed. - The Moving Picture World, November 26, 1910