The Upheaval
Cast & Crew
Charles Horan
Lionel Barrymore
Marguerite Skirvin
Franklin Hanna
Edgar L. Davenport
John H. Smiley
Film Details
Synopsis
Jim Gordon, a benevolent political boss, takes after his honest and trustworthy mother, but lives in the shadow of the corrupt father, "Big Jim Gordon." Victimized by Sidney Benson, the conniving, fraudulent Public Safety Director, Jim is attacked by the public after he pushes through controversial utilities and water rate bills. Jim meets and falls in love with Joan Madison, a reformer who wants Jim's help in passing a sanitation bill aimed at cleaning up the local slums. Although Jim reminds Joan that her father, who owns the tenements, would be destroyed financially if the sanitation bill were enforced, Joan persists in getting through the legislation. Ruined, Joan's father strikes a deal with Jim, accepting Jim's money in exchange for Joan's hand in marriage. Joan marries Jim, but remains aloof and critical of him. To get a franchise bill passed, Jim buys a railroad company, then immediately is accused of conflict of interest. As proof of his good will, Jim donates the railroad to the city, and Joan finally sees him as a man of integrity and principle.
Director
Charles Horan
Cast
Lionel Barrymore
Marguerite Skirvin
Franklin Hanna
Edgar L. Davenport
John H. Smiley
Paul Lawrence
James Malaidy
Howard Truesdell
George S. Stevens
Frank Lyons
Myra Brook
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Notes
Publication of the story by McCloskey cannot be confirmed. As McCloskey wrote scenarios as well as short stories, the film May have been written directly for the screen by him.
