The Climbers
Cast & Crew
Barry O'neil
Gladys Hanson
Walter Hitchcock
Dorothy Dewolff
Charles Brandt
George Soule Spencer
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Synopsis
John Hunter, whose extravagant wife and younger daughters are concerned primarily with their social status, suffers a great loss on stock speculations in an attempt to keep the family solvent. After he learns that Dick Sterling, the husband of his eldest and most sensible daughter Blanche, has lost three million dollars investing under Hunter's name, Hunter kills himself. Aunt Ruth, Hunter's maiden sister, offers to bail the family out, and places control of her finances and those of another estate under Sterling's control. Although it seems that the family has recovered, on Christmas Eve, Sterling confesses that he has squandered Aunt Ruth's fortune and that of the other estate on the stock market. Although Blanche's sisters compete for the attention of wealthy Mr. Trotter, their mother elopes with him. After stockbroker Ned Warden, who has always loved Blanche, intervenes to save Sterling from prison, Sterling accuses Blanche of infidelity and she angrily says that she loves Ned. Sterling then commits suicide, leaving Blanche and Ned free to marry.
Director
Barry O'neil
Cast
Gladys Hanson
Walter Hitchcock
Dorothy Dewolff
Charles Brandt
George Soule Spencer
Eleanor Barry
Ruth Bryan
Frankie Mann
Edith Ritchie
Clarence Jay Elmer
John Smiley
Peter Lang
Alan Quinn
Ferdinand Tidmarsh
Walter Law
Mildred Gregory
Rosetta Brice
Florence Hackett
George Clarke
William H. Turner
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Notes
Jack Standing was listed as a cast member in a pre-production news item. Warner Bros. Pictures released a film based on this play on May 14, 1927, directed by Paul Stein and starring Irene Rich. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.0922.) Another film based on this play was made in 1919 by the Vitagraph Co. of America. (See below.)
