When It Strikes Home
Cast & Crew
Perry N. Vekroff
Edwin August
Grace Washburn
Muriel Ostriche
William Bailey
Claire Mersereau
Film Details
Synopsis
A prologue introduces author Charles K. Harris at his window, viewing a crowd that has gathered around an ambulance. Harris says to his clerk, "Only an abandoned child," and then dictates the following story. Richard Hartley, a millionaire's son, marries Vera Walton, a musical comedy dancing girl, while he is intoxicated at a party. Richard regrets this rash act when he becomes sober, and because he is under twenty-one, his father is able to have the marriage annulled. Richard goes abroad, during which time Vera gives birth to their son, whom she then deserts. When Richard returns, he weds his former fiancée, a respectable girl from his own set. Childless, the couple adopts Victor, Vera's child, unaware of his parentage. Twenty years later, Victor, a physician at a New York hospital, is engaged to Muriel Worth. Meanwhile, Vera, who has trained to be a nurse to be near Victor, is recognized by Richard's father, at the hospital after an accident. When a rival for Muriel's affection tells the Board of Governors of an exclusive club that Victor is trying to join that his father's a crook, Vera discloses her secret to them but keeps silent to Victor. Richard, whose wife died years earlier, learns about Vera's devotion, and marries her.
Director
Perry N. Vekroff
Cast
Edwin August
Grace Washburn
Muriel Ostriche
William Bailey
Claire Mersereau
George Henry
Harry Knowles
Walter Fenner
Gladys Peck
J. Albert Hall
Claude Cooper
Charles K. Harris
Crew
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
This was the first film of the Charles K. Harris Feature Film Co. (called the Charles K. Harris Film Co. by one source), and the first film written by the popular song writer Charles K. Harris. Some reviews refer to the character played by Grace Washburn as "Vera Dupont." The film was shot in the Mittenthal Brothers' studio in Yonkers, NY. Actress Muriel Ostriche was temporarily blinded during the shooting of a close-up. After three days of treatment, she completely recovered her sight.
