《《On the Brink of Ruin (Short 1913)》》Storyline
When hailed, he firing abruptly stopped and the Admiral asked: "What are you doing on that ship?" She begged him to reconsider, and pleaded: "I don""t believe that the man who raised me is capable of destroying a ship full of innocent people.Through the revolving doors strutted the attractive, beautiful young stenographer Miss Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), a typical ambitious working girl who ascended in one of the elevators to Preysing""s hotel room on the 6th floor - she shared the lift with Pimenov, Kringelein, and the Baron.He saw it on the television.During a tour of the luxurious and beautiful hotel in a tracking shot that follows Ullman, Jack, and Wendy, they pass numerous workmen closing up the facility for the winter." To calm her haunting memories, Gregory insists that all her aunt""s possessions in the bedroom be boarded up, stored and shut away out of view in he third floor attic, where their trunks and all of her aunt""s costumes are located: "Suppose we make it a new house, with new things, beautiful things for a new beautiful life for us.It was only then I knew what I""d done.They believe her story of alien violation in a foreign land.Robert trusts his wife implicitly and hugs his "poor darling" wife, who clings to him for comfort - sitting on a striped chair.