Business Is Business
Cast & Crew
Otis Turner
Nat C. Goodwin
Mr. Nelson
Maude George
Mlle. Marguerite
Gretchen Lederer
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Nouveau riche Isidore Lechat, who lives in a castle in the south of France, believes that business is the most important thing, but remains attached to his children. Lechat, who does not let his wife appear at banquets because of her slovenly appearance, begins an affair in Paris with Celeste St. Jean, a friend of his dissolute son Xavier. Lechat offers to pay Xavier's debts if he gets his friend's father, the Minister of War, to lift restrictions on the operation of a mine in French Africa which Lechat optioned. At home, Lechat offers to pay an impoverished marquis if his son marries Lechat's daughter Germaine, but she reveals that she is going to bear the gardener's child. Lechat starts to strangle Germaine, but she rebukes him, calling him a Judas. After his wife leaves when Celeste arrives, Lechat learns that Xavier died in an auto accident. In a daze, Lechat concludes the mine deal. After Celeste is accidentally killed as she tries to prevent Lechat's suicide attempt, he envisions Judas betraying Christ at the Last Supper, and dies.
Director
Otis Turner
Cast
Nat C. Goodwin
Mr. Nelson
Maude George
Mlle. Marguerite
Gretchen Lederer
Marc Robbins
Frank Newburg
Wellington Playter
Wyndham Standing
Hobart Bosworth
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The play opened in New York with the title Business is Business on September 19, 1904. The film's settings are based on James Joseph Jacques Tissot's drawings. The actor Mr. Nelson May be Jack Nelson, who played in other Universal films.
