Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914).
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Nance O'Neil
Miriam Friedlander
Theda Bara
Celia Friedlander
Henry Bergman
Raphael Friedlander
William E. Shay
Gregor Randor
Maude Turner Gordon
Rebecca Friedlander (as Maud Turner Gordon)
Mrs. Allen Walker
Natasha
John Daly Murphy
Sam Friedlander
Mimi Yvonne
David Randor
Sidney Cushing
G. Belushoff
Anne Sutherland
Olga Belushoff
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On Wall Street a strong-willed and arrogant stockbroker, one of those successful men who feels no one else knows anything, exasperates his son, a broker as well. The son goes into business for himself successfully. When a panic comes, his father is brought to the verge of ruin by speculating against him driving a further wedge between them. In time a reconciliation is forged by the women in their lives.
Everybody's ordered out on a strike when Benjamin Cohen, proprietor of a sweat-shop, reduces the employees' wages ten per cent. Rebecca Barish, a young Jewess, and her father, reluctantly go out with the rest. Unable to find other work, their circumstances become so reduced that Rebecca is obliged to go to the pawnshop with some of their belongings, and while there, Jacob Stattler, the pawnbroker, takes a fancy to her, and offers her father, through a schatehen, five hundred dollars to give her to him in manage.
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