Common Sense (1920)

Dan Bowers embittered and disillusioned by an unhappy marriage seeks solitude in the Maine woods with a lame dog as his only companion One day he meets Violet Manners who with her invalid mother Marion is visiting in a nearby village Marion is haunted by memories of the past and one day when Violet takes Dan to meet her mother she discovers that he is the husband who deserted her years ago The shock causes Marions death but before she dies she justifies her past behavior toward Dan From the AFI Catalog of Feature FIlms