The Man Who Made Good
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Arthur Rosson
Jack Devereaux
Winifred Allen
Henry P. Dixon
Barney Gilmore
Albert Tavernier
Film Details
Synopsis
Tom Burton, a clerk in the Whitney wholesale grocery firm, is unable to advance beyond his lowly position. In the boardinghouse in which he resides, there lives Frances Clayton and Flash Lewis, also in Whitney's employ but a great talker and salesman whom Tom envies. Tom and Frances fall in love and marry but Frances, realizing Tom's lack of ambition, decides to leave him and take a job of her own. Unable to get a raise, Tom quits and one day, while in a small country town, he enters a general store and discovers the products of his former company languishing on the shelves. Hitting upon the idea of a "taste and buy" campaign to sell the products, Tom undertakes a whirlwind campaign which nets the company many orders. Josiah Whitney, the head of the firm, is so impressed that he offers Tom Flash Lewis' job and thus having made good, Tom is reunited with Frances.
Director
Arthur Rosson
Cast
Jack Devereaux
Winifred Allen
Henry P. Dixon
Barney Gilmore
Albert Tavernier
Blanche Davenport
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The working title of this film was Breaking Loose. According to Variety, although this film bears the Triangle name, it May have been financed by Henry P. Dixon, a burlesque producer who acted in the film. It was made at Triangle's Eastern studio in Yonkers, NY. The story is similar to that of George Weston's short story "Breaking Loose" (The Pittsburgh Post Magazine, 17 September 1916), but according to studio records, enough changes were made in the film so that the story did not have to be credited.
