The Home Breakers (1916)
Gerald Sanderson and his wife, Edna, start life in a small way in a small cottage on the outskirts of a large city. While Gerald is away at work Edna learns of an old man, a neighbor, who lives with his motherless daughter and who is in dire want. Edna responds to their needs and while she is unable to save the life of the child she succeeds in bringing some comfort to her before she dies. Thereby she wins the everlasting gratitude of the child's father who attaches himself to the Sanderson household as a sort of general servant. Some time later Gerald inherits a large fortune through the death of a distant relative. He and Edna move into the city and take with them the old man who becomes a sort of butler in their new establishment. Gerald becomes active upon the street as a broker and meets with great success. Wilson Crane, a freelance broker, learns through club gossip of the Sanderson's rapid rise to fortune and determines, if possible, to get some hold upon him. Accordingly, he and a Mrs. Renssaler, an adventuress, arrange for an introduction to Gerald in the hope that she may be able to fascinate him. Gerald, however, while courteous and cordial towards her, repulses her advances. Crane then determines to work through Edna as well and sow suspicion in her mind, believing that once there is trouble between them it would enable Mrs. Renssaler to work to better advantage. He meets Edna and gradually ingratiates himself into her confidence. At this time Gerald is in the midst of a big stock campaign which occupies most of his evenings as well as his days. Crane takes advantage of this condition to intimate to Edna that all is not well and finally comes out openly and offers to prove Gerald's faithlessness to her. By previous arrangement Mrs. Renssaler calls at Gerald's office while Crane places Edna in a position where she can see but not overhear what takes place in her husband's office. Edna sees what she takes to be proof of Gerald's alienation and returns home, heartbroken, with Crane. Then follows cunning and intrigue by the "Home-Breakers," and as the young couple is about to meet despair in a ruined home, an aged servant, whom the young people had befriended in his own tragic sorrow, comes to the rescue and the "Home-Breakers" are defeated in their plot, and the young couple united.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Bertram Bracken | Director |
| Anthony Coldeway | Writer |
| E.D. Horkheimer | Producer |
| H.M. Horkheimer | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Fred Whitman | |
| Margaret Landis | |
| Charles Dudley | |
| Madeline Pardee |
