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''Driving a Girl to Destruction'' is an Australian film directed by George Marlow. It is considered a lost film. ==Plot of original play== The evil Lucas List has seduced Ruth Wright, and desires her cousin, conservative school teacher Ruby Wright, but she is engaged to Robert Ray, a lieutenant in the merchant marine. List arranges it so that Ray gets drunk and is persuaded to marry Ruth, who refuses to break it off with List. Ruby visits List's house at night to get her cousin away and is found there by Robert Ray. Ruby saves her cousin at the expense of her own reputation and winds up sacked from her teaching job. She inadvertently takes shelter with Madame de Meral, the owner of a brothel who works for List, but manages to escape. Ruby is starving on the streets with Ned, a crippled boy who has followed her, when List finds them. Ruby consents to go to his hotel to sleep with List. She changes her mind at the last minute but List insists. Ruth comes across them and tries to stab Ruby in a jealous frenzy, but ends up killing List instead. However it is Ruby who is arrested. Ruth feels guilty and wants to confess but Madame de Meral tries to stop her and the two of them fight, in which Ruth is fatally wounded. However she manages to confess in time before dying and Robert and Ruby are married.〔 〕〔n 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Driving a Girl to Destruction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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