“To roll back to the old "home town" some day in a limousine- that's the ambition of every boy who leaves Main street to seek his fortune. George Ade has put this idea into his funniest, most human story.”
When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from all his debt, Tom heads west and eventually strikes it rich with an oil well. Now wealthy, he hatches a plan to get even with his "friends" in his hometown--by pretending to return home broke but having a colleague secretly buy up as much property in town as he can.
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Thomas Meighan
Tom Redding
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Male and Female
Lila Lee
Mary Thorne
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The Unholy Three
Male and Female
Cyril Ring
Eustace Grimley
Known for
The Cocoanuts
Monkey Business
Richard Carlyle
John Thorne
Known for
Harper
Maude Turner Gordon
Mrs. Redding
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Shopworn
Ladies' Man
Larry Wheat
Billy Andrews
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The Song of Love
Irene
Eddie Borden
Collector
Known for
A Chump at Oxford
The Flying Deuces
Frederick Burton
Otis Grimley
Known for
The Big Trail
One Way Passage
Charles S. Abbe
H.H. Hornby
Also in
Cappy Ricks
The Bishop's Candlesticks
Florence Dixon
Olivia Hornby
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Captain Swift
Never Say Quit
Gertrude Quinlan
Aggie Twaddle
No other roles listed
Ned Burton
Horace Beemer
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Hogan's Alley
The Fat Man's Burden
Alfred E. Green Director · George Ade Story Henry Cronjager Cinematographer
United States release December 24, 1922 · Produced in United States
Production
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · December 24, 1922
Theatrical
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