“Now- he was going to horsewhip the man whose gilded lies had robbed him of his treasure.”
When Keene McComb, a young explorer on an expedition to the North Pole, is given up for lost, his fiancée, Hester Thorpe, is coerced by an ambitious aunt into marrying Martin Ward, a man of reputed wealth. McComb survives, however, and returns to New York a few hours after the marriage. Later, Hester seeks his protection when Ward strikes her because of her refusal to ask McComb for money, and when it appears that Ward has committed suicide she and McComb are married. Ward is still alive, however, but he meets his death on a rocky precipice.
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Eugene O'Brien
Keene McComb
Also in
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Wonderful Chance
Martha Mansfield
Hester Thorpe
Known for
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frank Whitson
Martin Ward
Also in
The Adventures of Tarzan
The Tango Cavalier
George Stewart
Andrew Scott
Also in
The Seventh Day
The High-Born Child and the Beggar
Arthur Donaldson
Major Burns
Also in
The ABC of Love
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William P.S. Earle Director · John Lynch Writer R. Cecil Smith Writer
United States release March 4, 1921 · Produced in United States
Production
Selznick Pictures
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United States
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Original language
English
Release dates
United States · March 4, 1921
Theatrical · Lost Film
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