Name: The Great Accident
Released: 1920
Cast: Tom Moore, Jane Novak, Andrew Robson, Willard Louis, Lillian Langdon

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jun 1920

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Goldwyn Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

Goldwyn Distributing Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Great Accident by Ben Ames Williams (New York, 1920).

Synopsis

Winthrop Chase is running for mayor on the prohibition ticket in a town where his irresponsible son Wint is infamous for his drunken sprees. Wint is in love with Joan Caretall, whose father Amos is a big political boss. Amos fears Winthrop's power and decides to stalemate him by substituting Wint's name on the ballot for that of his father. The morning after the election, Wint awakens from a drunken stupor and finds himself the mayor. With Joan's support, Wint reforms and begins to clean up the town. Wint's actions earn the enmity of the town saloon owners who induce Hetty Morfee, an old schoolmate, to frame him with a fake paternity suit. At the crucial moment, however, Hetty admits the truth, thus clearing Wint, who is reconciled with his father and wins Joan's love.