Name: The Trufflers
Released: 1917
Cast: Nell Craig, Sydney Ainsworth, Ernest Maupain, Richard C. Travers, Patrick Calhoun

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

May 4, 1917

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Essanay Film Mfg Co.

Distribution Company

K-E-S-E Service

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Trufflers by Samuel Merwin (Indianapolis, 1916).

Synopsis

Unable to tolerate her father's sanctimony any longer, Sue Wilde leaves home for the lure of the stage and bohemianism of Greenwich Village. While acting in the theater of Jacob Zanin, a producer who professes the idealism of pure art while lusting for fame and success, Sue meets playwright Peter Ericson Mann who falls in love with her, as does Henry Bates, a hard-working critic. When Sue foresakes him, Mann, driven desperate by jealousy, betrays to the press Sue's secret that her father has embezzled church funds. The old man, unable to bear the disgrace, ends his life, forcing Sue to recognize the hypocrisy of the people that surround her. She gives up her career and bohemian life to be with Bates, who, unlike Peter and the other trufflers, is an honest, decent man.