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The Third Generation (1920)

★ 7.0/10 50 min Drama United States English
Director: Henry Kolker
Screenplay by: Henry Kolker
Writer: Arthur Ripley
Streaming: Not available

Description

When Alden Van Dusen, a third-generation member of a prestigious old New York family, is faced with the alternatives of allowing his firm to go bankrupt or becoming involved in fraud, he decides on suicide. As he is about to drown himself, Alden is attacked by a thug and, in the ensuing struggle, his assailant is killed. Seizing upon the opportunity, Alden changes identities with the dead man and drifts West, where he becomes an employee in his firm's mine.

Top Cast

Betty Blythe
Betty Blythe Helen Van Dusen
Mahlon Hamilton
Mahlon Hamilton Alden Van Dusen
Betty Brice
Betty Brice Miss Scales
Jack Pratt
Jack Pratt Cuthbert Steele
Josef Swickard
Josef Swickard Colonel Alden Van Dusen
Fred Kelsey
Fred Kelsey Brody
Peggy Cartwright
Peggy Cartwright Nancy Jane
Edward Cecil Bert Caldwell

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