Men


1918

Film Details

Release Date
May 15, 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Bacon-Backer Film Corp.
Distribution Company
State Rights; U S. Exhibitors' Booking Corp., booked through Foursquare Pictures exchanges
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Men by Harry Sophus Sheldon (New York, 1 May 1916).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6 reels

Synopsis

Poverty forces Mrs. Burton to allow the wealthy Mr. Fairbanks, whose wife has become deranged since the death of her baby, to adopt Alice, one of her two little girls. Laura Burton, meanwhile, remains with her mother. Kept in ignorance of each other's existence, the girls grow to womanhood and unknowingly become involved with the same man, the vain and wealthy Roger Hamilton. Roger becomes intimate with Laura by promising to marry her, but Alice's wealth soon becomes irresistible to him, and when she quarrels with her fiancé, Tom Courtney, Roger presses his suit with ardor. On the day that Roger is to marry Alice, Laura tells her mother of her own affair with him, whereupon Mrs. Burton rushes to the church and publicly denounces the villain. Alice returns to Tom, while Laura is married to artist Anthony Gerard, who loved her all along.

Film Details

Release Date
May 15, 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Bacon-Backer Film Corp.
Distribution Company
State Rights; U S. Exhibitors' Booking Corp., booked through Foursquare Pictures exchanges
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Men by Harry Sophus Sheldon (New York, 1 May 1916).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6 reels

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Notes

One review gave the last name of the characters played by Anna Lehr and Charlotte Walker as "Cummings" and that of the characters played by Gertrude McCoy, Willette Kershaw and William Tooker as "Fairbank."