Helen, while dressing, met with an accident. Her eyes are burnt by an alcohol lamp. Her husband does all that he can to make her life happy, and the young woman seems to forget that she is ... See full summary
Better to Have Remained Blind (1911) Online
Helen, while dressing, met with an accident. Her eyes are burnt by an alcohol lamp. Her husband does all that he can to make her life happy, and the young woman seems to forget that she is blind. But her husband falls in love with a friend of hers. .Meanwhile Helen is following her doctor's advice and without telling her husband, she undergoes an operation and, she can see again. Full of happiness she comes home, enters the drawing-room and finds her husband at the feet of a woman. The two lovers get up, taken aback. Jack thinks she can't see and he is himself again, but before the sad looking of his wife, he understands and the two guilty ones ask forgiveness. But it was too much for Helen's heart; she falls down, dead.
Original French title is undetermined.
Released in the US as a split reel along with the comedy Le fauteuil automobile (1911).