The read
It runs a compact 50m.
Synopsis
Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells fake stock and fakes his suicide. His wife remarries, but her new husband suffers a crippling accident, and wants to die, so she gives him a gun. The day he succeeds, her first husband returns, having made a fortune, and they are united.
Ratings
TMDB9/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Edmund LawrenceDirector
- Denison CliftScreenplay
Cast
- Madlaine TraverseClaudia Chilson
- George A. McDanielHugh Chilson (as George McDaniel)
- Frank ElliottCurtis Brainerd
- Charles K. FrenchRobert Brainerd
- Lenore LynardLily Brainerd
- Bud GearyTom Holbrook
- Edwin B. TiltonLe Roi Andrews
- Cordelia CallahanNurse
Themes
suicidefraudbigamyfugitive