Name: Beckoning Roads
Released: 1919
Cast: Bessie Barriscale, Niles Welch, George Periolat, Joseph J. Dowling, Emmett King

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Dec 21, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

B. B. Features

Distribution Company

Robertson-Cole Distributing Corp.; Superior Pictures

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Call of Life by Jeanne Judson (New York, 1919).

Synopsis

When Marquita Shay, the adopted daughter of Canadian farmer John Grayson, reaches womanhood, Grayson enrolls her in a St. Louis boarding school where she meets and marries Humphrey Wells, the son of a wealthy financier. Treated like a servant by her in-laws, Marquita leaves the Humphrey's home to return to Grayson. She discovers that Grayson has committed suicide after falling victim to a phony stock deal perpetrated by Wells senior. Time passes and Marquita travels to New York where she becomes secretary to Baron Brinker who, with Wells, swindled Grayson. She brings Wells and Brinker to their financial ruin and reunites with her husband who renounces his father.