Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: gang consists of Tom Burke, Fact2: Patriarch has been healing people, Fact3: group use Patriarch in faith healing scheme, Fact4: crippled boy runs to Patriarch, Fact5: Frog gives up life of crime
Output (English): The film takes place in a small, New England town in 1919 the Broadway play 1914, where a group of con men plan to use a faith healer to collect money. In New York Citys Chinatown, four crooks conspire to swindle a small New England town. The gang consists of Tom Burke Thomas Meighan, the head of the group; Rose Betty Compson, a con artist posing as a street walker; The Dope J.M. Dumont, who pretends to pimp Rose; and The Frog Lon Chaney, a contortionist. The plan is clear: in a small town outside of Boston there is a Patriarch Joseph Dowling who has been healing people. The group heads to the town and plans to use the Patriarch in a faith healing scheme. When the townspeople gather to see the Patriarch heal the sick, the Frog is there, posing as a cripple. As he crawls to the path of the man, his limbs become straightened and soon he walks to the Patriarch, supposedly healed. Unexpectedly, a crippled boy, his faith in the Patriarch overpowering him, loses his crutches and runs to the Patriarch. The story spreads across the country mostly on account of Burke, and people flock in from all over to visit the Patriarch and be healed. When a millionaire, Richard King W. Lawson Butt, brings his sister to be healed, he gives Burke 50,000 after the Patriarch cures her. During this visit, King meets Rose, and the two fall in love. Meanwhile, all is not well with Burke. One by one, he sees his gang disbanding because, unbeknownst to him, the healing power of the Patriarch is at work. The Dope gives up his drug addiction, The Frog gives up his life of crime and takes care of a widow left all alone, and Rose laments Kings departure. Burke becomes jealous, but when King returns to propose his marriage to Rose, she realizes that she loves Burke. The Patriarch dies, and the two lovers begin anew.