Mills of the Gods
Cast & Crew
Roy William Neill
May Robson
Fay Wray
Victor Jory
Raymond Walburn
James Blakely
Film Details
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Synopsis
Following the death of her husband forty years earlier, Mary Hastings has taken the family business from a small blacksmith's shop to a major industrial plant, the Hastings Plow Works, and is now considering retirement. As she believes that her own family is incompetent to take over the business, Mary turns it over to the board of directors, which is comprised of employees who have been working at the plant for many years. Three years after Mary's retirement, the Great Depression causes business profits to drop by ninety percent, placing the town on the verge of financial ruin. Mary realizes that she must do something to help, and orders her wastrel son Willard and daughter Henrietta home from their lengthy European vacations. Willard decides to close the plant and move the family to Paris, but the plant labor organizer, Jim Devlin, intervenes and demands action from him. While Willard plans to depart the country secretly, Jim meets and falls in love with Mary's granddaughter, Jean. Willard agrees to a meeting with the workers, but a riot breaks out when he is caught leaving the town, and his son, Alex, is accidentally killed. The disgruntled plant workers are soon offered hope, however, when Mary promises to reopen the plant with money she has managed to raise. With life in the town back to normal, Jim and Jean renew their romance.
Director
Roy William Neill
Cast
May Robson
Fay Wray
Victor Jory
Raymond Walburn
James Blakely
Josephine Whittell
Mayo Methot
Albert Conti
Samuel S. Hinds
Willard Robertson
Edward Keane
Edward Van Sloan
Frank Reicher
Fredrik Vogeding
Guy Usher
Eric Wilton
Winter Hall
Eddie Baker
George Pearce
A. R. Haysel
Albert J. Smith
Sidney Bracy
James Millican
Burr Caruth
Roger Gray
Charles Mcavoy
Raymond Turner
Jack Richardson
Charles Marsh
Earle Bunn
Dutch Hendrian
Bruce Mitchell
Frank Meredith
Arthur Thalasso
Frank G. Fanning
Jerry Storm
Adda Gleason
Jack Mack
Freddie Gilman
Stanley Blystone
Edward Brady
May Foster
Joe Smith Marba
Hal Price
George Mcgrill
Gene Gehrung
Allan Sears
Joseph Henderson
Jack Lowe
Harry Semels
Frank O'connor
Harry Wilson
Edward Randall
Otto Gervice
Helen Geraghty
Robert Wilber
Stella Lesaint
Kathryn Winner
George Burton
Ralph Banks
Harry Hume
Tom London
Art Miles
Charles Speas
Rodney Hildebrand
Charles Hickman
Roy Borderoth
Fred Trowbridge
Mac Wright
Clarence L. Sherwood
Crew
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Notes
According to the Screen Achievements Bulletin, the title of the Melville Baker and Jack Kirkland story on which this film was based was "A Hundred Million Dollars."
