The Golden Cloud (1913)
Bob Walton is apparently a very prosperous young broker, but when he asks Edith Gates to become his wife, her father is a bit dubious about his finances and reluctantly gives consent. Considering the fact that he is a broker. Bob is very careful. As he has begun to build a home for himself and his prospective bride, he does not deem it advisable to act upon the suggestion of his brother, and buy stock in the Golden Cloud mine. Troubles, however, never come singly. He has discussed the proposition with Edith Gates and discarded her advice, and she has left, when he receives a telegram that the bank holding a large deposit of his father has failed and left that aged man prostrated, and fast following it comes an appeal from his old mother. He hurriedly calls Edith up, summarizes to her the bad news, giving no explanation beyond the fact that he will be away for a few days. She determines to catch him at his office, but arrives there too late. On the desk she finds the message from his mother and immediately understands the sacrifice he is making to save his parents from distress. She looks for the mining tip on the Golden Cloud, that she had seen at a glance on her previous visit, and finally finds it in the waste basket. She is something of a speculator herself. She hies to her father's office and demands $10,000 to be used in a certain investment. As she has been accustomed to having her own way, she gets it. After a few days Bob returns and requests that the marriage be postponed because of his parents' troubles, to which fact, she now understanding, readily assents. Family cares not only harass Bob, but the market seems conspiring against him; he is hard bit and growing desperate. He picks up the paper and roads of the phenomenal rise in Golden Cloud securities and casts it away from him in disgust. The picture flashes to Edith's home, showing her reading the same paper, but she clasps the paper in ecstatic fashion, rushes to the phone and shouts to her brokers, "Sell. Sell. Sell!" The next day dawns dark for Bob, until Edith and her father invade his office and she slips into his hand a large official envelope crowded with important money, remarking, "I stole your tip and invested in the Golden Cloud." He opens the envelope, finds a draft for $100,000 and the crumpled tip on the Golden Cloud.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Hardee Kirkland | Director |
| E. Lynn Summers | Writer |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Maxwell Sargent | |
| Adrienne Kroell | |
| William Walcott | |
| Rose Evans |
