Film

The Third Generation

1920 · 50m · Drama

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.

Betty Blythe

Helen Van Dusen

Mahlon Hamilton

Alden Van Dusen

Betty Brice

Miss Scales

Jack Pratt

Cuthbert Steele

Josef Swickard

Colonel Alden Van Dusen

Fred Kelsey

Brody

Peggy Cartwright

Nancy Jane

Edward Cecil

Bert Caldwell

Herbert Jones

Barker

• Henry KolkerDirector · Screenplay
• Arthur RipleyWriter
• Charles R. SeelingDirector of Photography

Release date

January 5, 1920

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Genres

Drama

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