....Blanche Sweet, didn't have a huge amount to do but play the sad young wife who finds she has married the wrong suitor. She does come into her own during the telephone scene when she desperately tries to keep her suicidal husband on the phone while "waiting in the wings" admirer, Walter Miller, dashes to the office.
"Partners in business - rivals in love" - Henry B. Walthall as the more dominating lover wins Blanche's hand but after a year of bliss the marriage is doomed. Henry finds a new love - gambling and even stoops to stealing the company's money (Lionel Barrymore is the auditor) which Walter is determined to recover and restore Henry's standing in the firm.
There are some pretty bleak scenes - the couple's make or break quarrel which has Henry raising his fist and Blanche cowering in terror and one which shows a smoking gun in Henry's mouth!!! Unfortunately the "last minute rescue" for this, arrives too late!! Owen Moore is also one of the gamblers.
"Partners in business - rivals in love" - Henry B. Walthall as the more dominating lover wins Blanche's hand but after a year of bliss the marriage is doomed. Henry finds a new love - gambling and even stoops to stealing the company's money (Lionel Barrymore is the auditor) which Walter is determined to recover and restore Henry's standing in the firm.
There are some pretty bleak scenes - the couple's make or break quarrel which has Henry raising his fist and Blanche cowering in terror and one which shows a smoking gun in Henry's mouth!!! Unfortunately the "last minute rescue" for this, arrives too late!! Owen Moore is also one of the gamblers.