The read
It runs a compact 50m.
Synopsis
When Alden Van Dusen, a third-generation member of a prestigious old New York family, is faced with the alternatives of allowing his firm to go bankrupt or becoming involved in fraud, he decides on suicide. As he is about to drown himself, Alden is attacked by a thug and, in the ensuing struggle, his assailant is killed. Seizing upon the opportunity, Alden changes identities with the dead man and drifts West, where he becomes an employee in his firm's mine.
Ratings
TMDB7/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Henry KolkerDirector
- Henry KolkerScreenplay
- Arthur RipleyWriter
Cast
- Betty BlytheHelen Van Dusen
- Mahlon HamiltonAlden Van Dusen
- Betty BriceMiss Scales
- Jack PrattCuthbert Steele
- Josef SwickardColonel Alden Van Dusen
- Fred KelseyBrody
- Peggy CartwrightNancy Jane
- Edward CecilBert Caldwell
- Herbert JonesBarker
Themes
lost film