God Disposes (1912) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1912 · 15 mins

Directed by

Alice Guy-Blaché

Starring

Blanche Cornwall, Darwin Karr, Magda Foy, Mace Greenleaf

A privileged young man abandons his family for a stage actress, only to be disowned and discover he cannot support himself. His wife falls ill, a child is born, and years later he faces desperate poverty, planning a burglary. He leaves his revolver out; his naive child toys with it, removes the bullets, and later, unaware, points it at his father during a nighttime break‑in. Divine intervention spares the son from patricide.