Name: The Man of the Hour
Genre: Adaptation
Released: 1914
Cast: Robert Warwick, Alec B. Francis, Ned Burton, Eric Mayne, John Hines

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Adaptation

Release Date

Oct 12, 1914

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

William A. Brady Picture Plays, Inc.

Distribution Company

World Film Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play The Man of the Hour by George Broadhurst (New York, 4 Dec 1906).

Synopsis

George Garrison kills himself after he is ruined by speculating in the stock market on phony tips given to him by Charles Wainwright, but before his death he begs his son Henry to avenge him. Henry makes a fortune prospecting out West, then returns to New York and assumes the name of Henry Thompson. He becomes Wainwright's protégé and falls in love with his daughter Dallas, then is elected mayor of New York, backed by Wainwright's cronie, political boss Richard Horrigan. In return for Wainwright's support, he is supposed to sign a franchise binding the city to the financier's railway. Henry refuses, so Wainwright and his flunkies attempt to discredit him by dredging up an old murder charge, but the charge is proved false when the supposed victim, Henry's partner Joe Standing shows up. Finally, Henry confronts Wainwright, accuses him of causing his father's death and of attempting to defraud the city. Despite his denunciation of her father, Dallas proclaims her love for Henry. In an epilogue, the hands of the victims of political boss Horrigan clutch at him from the grave.