With Bridges Burned (1915)
Louis Mitchell is doomed to keen disappointment, as he enters the office of Comer and Mathison, steel contractors, by whom he is employed as a salesman. Mr. Comer informs him, in characteristic fashion, that business is "rotten," and that Mitchell, with other members of the sales force, will be obliged to take a vacation. At home, his bride is reading a trade journal, when her eye runs across a notice to the effect that Robinson and Ray of London are to rebuild their mammoth South African cyanide tanks, destroyed in the Boer War. Hardly has Mitchell returned home, and imparted the news to her, when she proposes that he try for the $3,000,000 Robinson and Ray contract. She accordingly draws her $1,000 from the bank to finance her husband on his trip. Mitchell succeeds in getting a letter of introduction from Comer and Mathison, delegating him as their accredited representative, and authorizing him to formulate bids in their name. With his wife's $1,000 drawn and apportioned, Mitchell realizes that the bridges have been burned, and there is no retreat. In London Mitchell finally gets an audience with the director-general of the firm of Robinson and Ray, who tells him he is late, and it would be impossible for him to figure the estimates in the short time which remains. Mitchell is told that the bids must be in positively by twelve o'clock on the 31st of the month. Mitchell works night and day on the plans. Grigsby, a rival competitor for the contract, by trickery, learns that Mitchell's figures are lower than his, and as it is the day before the 3ist, it is too late to alter his. He bribes the chief clerk to fix the clock on the following morning. A nervous wreck from the great strain, Mitchell hurries to the Robinson and Ray offices on the 31st, and to his dismay, the clock and the watches of the chief clerk and Grigsby point to 12:10. Dropping the plans, he rushes, heartbroken, from the place. Struck by pity, the office boy, whom Mitchell had tipped on a previous occasion, reaches through the office railing, gets the bids and takes them to the inner office. In America, a couple of weeks later, Mitchell gets a telegram from Comer and Mathison to the effect that their bids were accepted, and that he has been appointed sales manager.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Ashley Miller | Director |
| Rex Beach | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Augustus Phillips | |
| Mabel Trunnelle | |
| Frank McGlynn Sr. | |
| Robert Brower |
