Enoch Arden (1911)

Synopsis (with spoilers): Annie Lee has two suitors, Philip Ray and Enoch Arden. She ends up choosing Enoch as a husband. He is poor, and soon, with three children to support, he finds himself in dire need of money, so he decides to enlist as a sailor on a long trip. There is a shipwreck and he ends up on a deserted island. Meanwhile, at home, Philip Ray resumes his courtship of Annie Lee and finally convinces her to marry him. One day, a passing ship discovers Enoch in his island and rescues him back home. Getting there, he finds out his wife has remarried and dies of sadness. Based on a 1864 poem by Alfred Tennyson.