Kindhearted Charles Wendel, who has built his pushcart grocery business into a prosperous enterprise, adopts little eight-year-old Mary Brian after her mother dies in poverty. The little girl becomes the angel of the house, beloved by all. Wendel's dream is that his son Ralph will carry on the business, but when Ralph graduates from college, he decides that he is too good for the grocery business. Instead, he goes to work in a bank where he falls prey to swindlers who convince him to forge his father's name on a $100,000 check. When the forgery is discovered, the old man covers the check at the cost of his own financial ruin. Ralph, chagrined, leaves home to make good and soon after returns, prosperous, to wed Mary and restore the fortune and happiness of the Wendel family.
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Lew Fields
Charles Wendel
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Madge Evans
Mary Brian, age 8
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Lillian Cook
Mary Brian, age 18
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Betsy Ross
Nick Long Jr.
Ralph Wendel, age 10
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William Sherwood
Ralph Wendel, age 20
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Vivia Ogden
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Way Down East
Stanhope Wheatcroft
William
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Justine Cutting
Lena Wendel
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George Cowl
Oscar Leaming
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George Cowl Director · Adolf Philipp Screenplay Lucien Tainguy Cinematographer
United States release October 1, 1917 · Produced in United States · Production Peerless Productions
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World Film
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Peerless Productions
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · October 1, 1917
Theatrical
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