Name: After His Own Heart
Released: 1919
Cast: Hale Hamilton, Naomi Childers, Mrs. Louis, Frank Hayes, Harry Carter

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Apr 28, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Metro Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

Metro Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "After His Own Heart" by Ben Ames Williams in All-Story Weekly (4 Jan-25 Jan 1919).

Synopsis

After a trustee absconds with his fortune, socialite Thomas Wentworth Duncan meets Sally Reeves, an old flame, and with his love for her newly rekindled, realizes he lacks the money to which she is accustomed. Desperately desiring to marry Sally, Duncan accepts, without question, an offer of $250,000, only to discover that he has sold his heart to Dr. Spleen, a surgeon who plans to exchange the organ with that of Sally's rich elderly uncle, Judah P. Corpus, who wants to remain young. When Duncan learns that Spleen's previous heart transplant patients, two dogs, have died, Duncan reneges, but a huge attendant prevents him from leaving Spleen's island sanitarium. After Spleen dies from excitement before he can begin the operation, Duncan's fortune is restored. Corpus believes the operation to have been a success and Duncan and Sally marry.