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In real life Jack Pickford was a "man who had everything". He was not only the brother of the rich and influential Mary Pickford but he was a good actor in his own right although not in the same top echelon as his more famous and more talented sister.

The film has an interesting plot and is fun to watch because Pickford gives a good performance, although at this young age (24), he already looks a bit dissipated.

As his father's secretary, Priscilla Bonner makes a sweet and touching heroine, but Shannon Day is much too obvious and mean spirited as the vamp. Character actor Alex B. Francis lends credibility to the not very credible role of the blind beggar who's reverse curse "May you always have everything you want" has a surprising result.

*****WARNING — MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS ***************** "The Man Who Had Everything" casts Jack as the spoiled and selfish son of a millionaire, who finally comes to his senses and becomes a concerned and industrious human being, something he was too weak to do in real life

The Grapevine DVD presents the full-length movie as originally released to theatres in 1920. It runs 66 minutes. But that's not good news. At 50 minutes, the movie may well be tolerably entertaining, but at 66 it comes across as a dull and distinctly dreary affair, dominated by (1) a lack-luster Jack Pickford who fails to capitalize on his initial welcome and becomes dead boring about two-thirds of the way through, and (2) Lionel Belmore, our favorite inn-keeper, who distinctly lacks the charisma to play a big industrialist -- particularly one so inadequately and unconvincingly drawn as Mark Bullway. True, the support characters, led by goody-two-shoes Priscilla Bonner and vampish Shannon Day, attempt to put up a good fight, but they are defeated by director Alfred E. Green who seems determined to focus the lion's share of audience attention on sulky Jack Pickford and beefy, bombastic Belmore. Both of them, alas, quickly wear out their initial promise and turn into damp squibs.