02-14-2012, 01:58 PM
One of the many delights of UNCLE SILAS is the magnificently preposterous basic premise. A man wishes to rescue the reputation of his brother, whom everyone else suspects of being a murderer, by stipulating in his will that the brother should be the guardian of the man's daughter and stand to inherit a vast fortune if she should die before coming of age. What a noble, if somewhat misguided, experiment!