The Unfaithful Wife (1915)

Count Fabiano Romani, an Italian nobleman, discovers that his wife is in love with Arturo Durazzi, and shortly afterward is stricken with what appears to be cholera. The guilty couple, who have long been anxious to have the husband out of the way, bury him in the family vault of the Romani, but Count Fabiano, who was not dead, manages to escape from the tomb, and with the thought of breaking up the unfortunate affair between his wife and Arturo, disguises himself, and conceives the novel idea of winning back his wife from the man who has taken her from him. Fabiano meets Juliet by posing as a rich friend of her dead husband, and succeeds in winning her promise to marry him. Arturo, furious at discovering her fickleness, challenges Fabiano to a duel, but on the dueling ground, Fabiano reveals his real identity, and then kills Arturo. Shortly after her marriage, Juliet begs her husband to show her the hiding place of his wonderful collection of jewels and, the time for his revenge having come, Fabiano takes her, blindfolded, to the tomb in which she had imprisoned him and in one of the most powerful scenes of the photoplay, discloses to her the fact that he is her first husband. In spite of her prayers for forgiveness, he confines her in the tomb, there to await the fate which she had planned for him.