Name: An American Live Wire
Released: 1918
Cast: Earle Williams, Grace Darmond, Hal Clements, Miss Toner, Orral Humphrey

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Mar 18, 1918

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Vitagraph Co. of America; A Blue Ribbon Feature

Distribution Company

Greater Vitagraph, Inc.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "The Lotus and the Bottle" by O. Henry in The Smart Set (Jan 1902).

Synopsis

When Willard Geddie is told by his sweetheart Ida Payne's fortune-hunting mother that Ida no longer wishes to see him, the heartbroken young man leaves New York and accepts an official position in the small South American country of Coralio. He lives an idle life there until news arrives that the President of Coralio and his mistress, an American opera singer, are planning to abscond with the country's treasury. By mistake, Geddie captures the President of an American insurance company who is trying to enter Coralio with embezzled money, after which the criminal commits suicide. Meanwhile, Ida arrives in South America looking for Geddie, but she is erroneously identified as the President's mistress and refused permission to come ashore. A detective from New York later arrests the President and the opera singer, believing them to be the embezzler and his wife. Finally the confusion is cleared up and Geddie returns to New York with the stolen insurance money and Ida.