Virtuous Men
Cast & Crew
Ralph Ince
E. K. Lincoln
Grace Darling
Clara Joel
Robert W. Cummings
John P. Wade
Film Details
Synopsis
When Bob Stokes, a wealthy New York clubman, loses his fortune, he is jilted by his fiancée Marcia Fontaine. He then wanders to an upstate lumber camp where he impresses the owner, Henry Willard, with his leadership and fighting abilities. After Stokes quells a strike engineered by the previous foreman, Robert Brummon, who is really a Bolshevik agitator, to prevent shipments of lumber for government contracts, Brummon, seeking revenge, sets the forest on fire, but Stokes controls it. Willard then sends for Stokes to oversee his New York shipyards where a government "mystery ship" is under construction. After Stokes and Willard's daughter Helen fall in love, Brummon gets Marcia to attempt to seduce Stokes. Marcia lures Stokes to her apartment, where Brummon plans to kill him, but he escapes when he learns that a time bomb is set to destroy the ship. Stokes finds the bomb just before it explodes and throws it into the water. The saboteurs are captured, and together, Stokes and Helen watch the ship launch.
Director
Ralph Ince
Cast
E. K. Lincoln
Grace Darling
Clara Joel
Robert W. Cummings
John P. Wade
William B. Mack
Irving Brooks
Edward Talbot
Danny Hayes
H. Blonkhall
Logan Paul
Hugh Jeffrey
William Cohill
Crew
Film Details
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
This was the first release of S-L Pictures, and was the first Ralph Ince Film Attraction. Some scenes in this film were shot at the Sun Shipbuilding Co. in Chester, PA. Employees of the company appeared in the film. According to pre-production news items the following people were hired in December 1918 to work on the film: Charles Fishback, cameraman, in addition to William Black; Charles Nelson, Harry Thomas, and Charles Levine, assistant cameramen; William Cohill, in charge of the photographic work; Howard Dell, electrician; Joseph Prem, head carpenter, and E. Harris, painter.
