The Clarion
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
James Durkin
Carlyle Blackwell
Howard Hall
Marion Dentler
Charles Mason
George Soule Spencer
Film Details
Synopsis
To stop The Clarion's attacks on Dr. Surtaine, whom it accuses of selling quack medicines, his son Harrington buys the newspaper. Through The Clarion , the civic-minded Harrington hopes to expose those responsible for the city's problems. In opposing tenement owners, however, he loses his fiancée Esme Elliott, whose father is the city's slumlord. Then, when Harrington discovers that his father does indeed earn his living through patent medicine, he continues the newspaper's campaign against him. Finally, anarchists blow up The Clarion office, but by then Esme and Dr. Surtaine have come to understand the justice behind the newspaper's attacks. As a result, Esme once again becomes Harrington's fiancée, and Dr. Surtaine agrees to stop manufacturing his snake oil.
Director
James Durkin
Cast
Carlyle Blackwell
Howard Hall
Marion Dentler
Charles Mason
George Soule Spencer
Rosemary Dean
Philip Hahn
Film Details
