The Rich Slave
Cast & Crew
Romaine Fielding
Mabel Taliaferro
Romaine Fielding
Joseph Smiley
June Day
Arthur Elton
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
No. 17 is the only name of orphan Gladys Claypool in the unhappy charge, with others, of a brutal superintendent. Her freedom is sought, however, by financiers eager for the possession of some valuables to which she is entitled. A nurse agrees to help them in exchange for a sum of money, and the superintendent intervenes, hoping for a cut of the nurse's profit. The girl suffers greatly, and her life is threatened; but she meets a young man who helps her. He goes West, and the plotters try to remove him in a train wreck, but he survives to find the girl's grandfather and proof of her clear title to the disputed property.
Director
Romaine Fielding
Cast
Mabel Taliaferro
Romaine Fielding
Joseph Smiley
June Day
Arthur Elton
Martha Forrest
Edgar Viller
Ira M. Hards
Herbert Standing Jr.
A. H. Busby
Barney Gilmore
Ben Hendricks
Emile La Croix
Joseph Webber
Robert Forsythe
Morgan Thorpe
Bert Hodgkins
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The film was put on the state rights market in July 1920, and a trade journal article from September 1920 stated that it had been exhibited in theaters, though no review appears in a trade journal until June 1921. It is listed in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30 (F2.4565). Lonergan May have written both the scenario and the story; a trade article credits him with the "authorship" of the film.
