Destiny


1919

Film Details

Release Date
Jun 1, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Distribution Company
Jewel Productions, Inc.; Universal Film Mfg Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Destiny by Charles Neville Buck (New York, 1916).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5,475ft (6 reels)

Synopsis

Ambitious Hamilton Burton convinces his father to sell their farm and move to New York so that he can be educated to become a financial power. Years later, Hamilton, the most feared and unscrupulous man on Wall Street, controls the lives of his parents, sister Mary, and weak-willed brother Paul. When Mary becomes engaged to Jefferson Edwards, a business rival of Hamilton's she met on the farm, and she ignores Hamilton's objections, Hamilton ruins Edwards financially, causing ruin to others, but also leading to his own downfall. After Paul and his parents die, Hamilton is thrown from a window by a man he had ruined. Then, a title announces that the preceding showed what might have happened if Hamilton's father had sold their farm. Instead, Hamilton is now an engineer on the farm, serving people, not his own ambition, and Mary and Edwards are married.

Film Details

Release Date
Jun 1, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Film Mfg Co.
Distribution Company
Jewel Productions, Inc.; Universal Film Mfg Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Destiny by Charles Neville Buck (New York, 1916).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5,475ft (6 reels)

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