The Stream of Life
Cast & Crew
Horace G. Plimpton
Douglas Redmond Jr.
Allen Willey
Edward Keenan
Leonard Willey
Nettie Davenport
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Synopsis
Philip Maynard grows up happily on an American farm where religion is part of daily life. When he reaches maturity and wants to go to the city, his parents give their blessing. Philip begins working for six-dollars-a-week, and twenty years later, he is a bank president. After his father dies, Philip invites his mother to live in his palatial New York home. Seeing that Philip and his wife Alice neglect religion, and have not instructed their daughter Marjorie, Mrs. Maynard teaches her with the dusty Bible which she earlier gave Philip. Marjorie falls seriously ill and dies. Philip scorns his mother's religious resignation, and indulges in club life with Alice, until Alice visits a church prayer meeting and, after a long struggle, draws Philip back into the fold. When depositors stand to lose their life savings due to a director's speculations, Philip sacrifices his own fortune to save the bank. He and Alice retire happily to the country. When Philip dies several years after Alice, he is welcomed by his parents, Alice and Marjorie.
Director
Horace G. Plimpton
Cast
Douglas Redmond Jr.
Allen Willey
Edward Keenan
Leonard Willey
Nettie Davenport
Frank Wilson
William J. Gross
Anna Cleveland
Mildred Carrie Travers
Henry Mowbray
Charles Sutton
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Trivia
Notes
Author James K. Shields used his story as a lecture topic throughout the United States. The Plymouth Film Corp. was formed by a group of prominent gentlemen in New Jersey in the spring of 1919 to present Shield's story in motion picture form. The film was shot at the Plimpton studios in Sherwood Park, Yonkers, New York. The subtitles of the film included excerpts from well-known poems and songs by, among others, Alfred Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. This was Anna Cleveland's first film. Allen Willey was Leonard Willey's son. The film had its premiere at a private screening at the Rialto Theatre in New York on October 20, 1919.
