Armstrong's Wife
Cast & Crew
George H. Melford
Edna Goodrich
Thomas Meighan
James Cruze
Hal Clements
Ernest Joy
Film Details
Synopsis
Harvey Arnold, a gambler who flees San Francisco for a small country town during a reform movement, captures the affections of May Fielding. She marries and elopes with Harvey, despite the pleas of her childhood sweetheart, David Armstrong, who leaves brokenhearted for the Canadian Northwest. In the city, when May discovers Arnold's occupation, he promises to quit, but after his partner, Jack Estabrook, arranges a police raid so that he can have May, Arnold kills him. When Arnold flees, May learns that he is still married to another woman. After May loses a job as a model for rejecting the advances of a buyer, David, who learns from a newspaper of Arnold's crime, arrives and persuades May, who says that she is through with marriage and men, to return to his homestead as his wife "in name only." Later, Arnold finds the couple and May protects him from the mounted police. Arnold demands to take May back, and wounds David. As May threatens suicide, the police arrive and kill the fleeing Arnold. May's concern over David's wound turns into love for him.
Director
George H. Melford
Cast
Edna Goodrich
Thomas Meighan
James Cruze
Hal Clements
Ernest Joy
Raymond Hatton
Horace B. Carpenter
Mrs. Lewis Mccord
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Notes
This was the first film of Edna Goodrich, an American actress who spent the previous year as a nurse in hospitals in England and Belgium, and allowed her home near London to be transformed into a hospital for convalescent soldiers. The original title of Margaret Turnbull's screenplay was The Bargain.
