Name: On the Stroke of Three
Released: 1924
Cast: Kenneth Harlan, Madge Bellamy, Mary Carr, John Miljan, Robert Dudley

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Sold for cash

Release Date

Nov 30, 1924

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Associated Arts Corp.

Distribution Company

Film Booking Offices of America

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Man From Ashaluna by Henry Payson Dowst (Boston, c1920).

Synopsis

A financier, Lafayette Jordon, attempts to buy property in the Ashaluna Valley, in order to build a reservoir as part of a power development project. The chief obstacle to his plan is a young inventor, Judson Forrest, who refuses to part with the family homestead, which blocks a proposed sluiceway. Seeking money to finance the development of his invention of a new kind of stove, Judson mortgages the family home and goes to New York, where he falls in love with Mary Jordon, the daughter of the financier. While he is away, the village banker sells the mortgage on the Judson homestead to Henry Mogridge, Judson's lawyer, who begins foreclosure procedures. When Judson hears of this transaction, he breaks off with Mary, believing that she has been "using" him. With the help of some friends, Judson raises the necessary money to prevent the loss of his home and pays off the mortgage in the nick of time. When he learns that neither of the Jordons knew of Mogridge's action, he is reconciled to Mary and obtains her father's permission to marry her.