The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds
During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.
- Year: 1918
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama, History
- Studio: World Film
- Keyword: blackmail, lost film, revolutionary war
- Director: Arthur Ashley
- Cast: June Elvidge, Carlyle Blackwell, Arthur Ashley, Carl Gerard, Evelyn Greeley, Lionel Belmore