Film

Back Home and Broke

1922 · 1h 20m · Comedy · Drama

To roll back to the old "home town" some day in a limousine- that's the ambition of every boy who leaves Main street to seek his fortune. George Ade has put this idea into his funniest, most human story.

When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from all his debt, Tom heads west and eventually strikes it rich with an oil well. Now wealthy, he hatches a plan to get even with his "friends" in his hometown--by pretending to return home broke but having a colleague secretly buy up as much property in town as he can.

Thomas Meighan

Tom Redding

Lila Lee

Mary Thorne

Frederick Burton

Otis Grimley

Cyril Ring

Eustace Grimley

Charles S. Abbe

H.H. Hornby

Florence Dixon

Olivia Hornby

Gertrude Quinlan

Aggie Twaddle

Richard Carlyle

John Thorne

Maude Turner Gordon

Mrs. Redding

Larry Wheat

Billy Andrews

Ned Burton

Horace Beemer

James Marlowe

Policeman

Eddie Borden

Collector

• Alfred E. GreenDirector
• George AdeStory
• Henry CronjagerDirector of Photography

Release date

December 24, 1922

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Comedy, Drama