The read
It runs a compact 1h 0m.
Synopsis
Bedford Mills, wounded in France, meets aristocratic Helen Jessop at a party given by her father for returning war heroes in his Fifth Avenue home. Bedford falls violently in love with Helen, but discovering that he is only a poor bank clerk she insists that he must first become a man of importance. He decides that, in view of the soaring prices of shoes, he will refuse to wear shoes on the street. Causing a sensation, he is arrested and then released, but all New York reads of his exploits.
Ratings
TMDB8/10
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Key crew
- Maxwell KargerDirector
Cast
- Bert LytellBedford Mills
- Lucy CottonHelen Jessop
- Virginia ValliMary Turner
- Frank CurrierSt. John Jessop
- Tammany YoungShorty Mulligan
- Fred WarrenBud Carter
- Clarence ElmerRadford Haynes
- William RoselleBing Horton
- Mary BeatonSarah Butler
- Frank R. StrayerJack Hyde