The Money Master
Cast & Crew
George Fitzmaurice
Frank Sheridan
Paul Mcallister
Calvin Thomas
Sam Reid
Anne Meredith
Film Details
Synopsis
John Haggleton rises to the top of industry through ruthless and illegal machinations. When his wife learns that Haggleton arranged for a competitor's factory to be burned down, she leaves with her baby Philip. Before dying in poverty, she leaves Philip with Gentle, a deep-sea diver. Twenty years later, Jenny Moran, a prostitute whose father was ruined by Haggleton, loves Philip, who loves Margaret Lawrence, a nurse whose father killed himself because of Haggleton. Haggleton, told of Philip's whereabouts by Gentle, visits the New York tenement where Philip lives. After Philip shows him the squalid conditions of the slums, Haggleton sets out to prove that any healthy person can make good. He moves to the slums without a penny, gets a job in Moran's bakery, purchases an electric dough mixer on the installment plan and soon operates a successful bread trust. When Moran, influenced by anarchists, shoots at Haggleton, Philip, who has learned to love his father, stands in the way and is wounded. Margaret nurses him, and after they marry, they and Haggleton devote their lives and fortune to charity.
Director
George Fitzmaurice
Cast
Frank Sheridan
Paul Mcallister
Calvin Thomas
Sam Reid
Anne Meredith
Fania Marinoff
Bert Gudgeon
Malcolm Duncan
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Notes
Wilton Lackaye, H. B. Warner and Elsie Ferguson appeared in the stage production. There was a pre-release showing of the film in New York on August 24, 1915. This was Frank Sheridan's first film. The characters "Moran" and "Jenny Moran" were called "Dvorak" and "Jenny Dvorak," respectively, in some reviews.
