The Man Beneath

==Plot==

==Plot==

As described in a [[film magazine]],{{cite journal|title=Reviews: ''The Man Beneath''|journal=Exhibitors Herald|volume=9|issue=5|page=[https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald09exhi/page/n310 103]|publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company|location=New York City|date=July 26, 1919|url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald09exhi}} Kate Erskine (Eddy) and her sister Mary (Curley) love Dr. Chindi Ashutor (Hayakawa) and James Bassett (Gilbert), respectively, the latter having been college chums, one being a noted physician while the other pursuing no occupation as yet. Mary and Bassett become engaged while Dr. Ashutor goes to aid his countrymen in plague-stricken India. While he is away Bassett receives a summons from the Black Hand, an order he joined in his youth for adventure. Feeling his life in danger, he goes to Dr. Ashutor in India and with his aid almost succeeds in establishing his feigned death as a reality. However, the spies of the order follow them to Scotland and to the home of the Erskines. Here Dr. Ashutor is instrumental in finally ridding Bassett from the menace of the order. Mary and Bassett then marry, while the situation of Kate and Dr. Ashutor remains undecided.

As described in a [[film magazine]],{{cite journal|title=Reviews: ''The Man Beneath''|journal=Exhibitors Herald|volume=9|issue=5|page=[https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald09exhi/page/n310 103]|publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company|location=New York City|date=July 26, 1919|url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald09exhi}} Kate Erskine and her sister Mary love Dr. Chindi Ashutor and James Bassett, respectively, the latter having been college chums, one being a noted physician while the other pursuing no occupation as yet. Mary and Bassett become engaged while Dr. Ashutor goes to aid his countrymen in plague-stricken India. While he is away Bassett receives a summons from the Black Hand, an order he joined in his youth for adventure. Feeling his life in danger, he goes to Dr. Ashutor in India and with his aid almost succeeds in establishing his feigned death as a reality. However, the spies of the order follow them to Scotland and to the home of the Erskines. Here Dr. Ashutor is instrumental in finally ridding Bassett from the menace of the order. Mary and Bassett then marry, while the situation of Kate and Dr. Ashutor remains undecided.

[[File:The Man Beneath - lobbycard (1919).jpg|thumb|The Man Beneath Lobbycard]]

[[File:The Man Beneath - lobbycard (1919).jpg|thumb|The Man Beneath Lobbycard]]

==Reception==

==Reception==

[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'s review was mixed, praising the acting but criticizing the editing and intertitles for being confusing.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1919-07-11_55_7/page/n59/mode/2up|title=Variety|publisher=Variety Publishing Co.|location=New York|publication-date=July 11, 1919|pages=61|language=en}}

[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'s review was mixed, praising the acting but criticized the editing and intertitles for being confusing.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1919-07-11_55_7/page/n59/mode/2up|title=Variety|publisher=Variety Publishing Co.|location=New York|publication-date=July 11, 1919|pages=61|language=en}}

[[The Moving Picture World|Moving Picture World]]'s review by Margaret I. MacDonald was positive, calling the film "thrillingly adventurous" and "dramatically romantic."{{cite book|last=|url=https://archive.org/details/movpicwor411movi/page/n121/mode/2up|title=The Moving Picture World|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co.|location=New York|publication-date=July 5, 1919|pages=109|language=en}}

[[The Moving Picture World|Moving Picture World]]'s review by Margaret I. MacDonald was positive, calling the film "thrillingly adventurous" and "dramatically romantic."{{cite book|last=|url=https://archive.org/details/movpicwor411movi/page/n121/mode/2up|title=The Moving Picture World|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co.|location=New York|publication-date=July 5, 1919|pages=109|language=en}}