The World Aflame
Cast & Crew
Ernest C. Warde
Frank Keenan
Kathleen Kerrigan
Clark Marshall
Janice Wilson
Bert Sprotte
Film Details
Synopsis
Wealthy businessman Carson Burr discovers first-hand the problem of social unrest when he loses his cook and his chauffeur and he is insulted by a waiter. Burr runs for mayor to improve the labor situation and is elected. The editor of The Red Messenger organizes the streetcar drivers to begin a general strike, but Burr manages to break up the strike by personally running a streetcar and backing it up with armed guards. The anarchists capture his son, but Burr will not back down. He calls together leading businessmen and proposes a cooperative plan that brings together capital and labor and puts a stop to future strikes. Capital and labor are also brought together when Burr's daughter becomes romantically involved with his valet turned personal secretary.
Director
Ernest C. Warde
Cast
Frank Keenan
Kathleen Kerrigan
Clark Marshall
Janice Wilson
Bert Sprotte
Claire Dubrey
Joseph Mcmanus
Film Details
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Notes
This film was produced at the Robert Brunton Studios in Los Angeles. Trade articles from the first half of July 1919 credit F. X. James with the film's story and Jack Cunningham with its scenario, but all reviews credit Keenan with the story and Keenan and Cunningham with the scenario.
