The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England

An earl's son, expelled, has to earn a half crown before he can come home, and a parson's daughter with a ring she believes is magic helps him do it. Maurice Tourneur arrived in America with pictorial composition already in hand, and the light in the garden shows it; Fort Lee stands in for old England, with John van den Broek on camera. His first American film, for World, 1914, an hour.