A man rises from rags to riches, first by boxing, then as a saloon owner, freight contractor, and eventually dockyard boss. However, the man's brother-in-law complicates things with his dockworker union activism. The film is presumed lost.
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Holbrook Blinn as Michael R. Regan
William Marion as Archbishop Sullivan
Bert Starkey as Porkey McCoy
Alice Brady as Emily Griswold
Charles S. Abbe as James D. Griswold
Douglas MacLean as Regan's Secretary, Robert
Julia Stuart as Mrs. Regan
Frederick Truesdell as Scanlan
Émile Chautard Director
Edward Sheldon Story
William A. Brady Producer
Lucien Tainguy Director of Photography
United States 24 May 1915
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1915:
14 October 1915
Leonie Sobatsky (Laura Hope Crews) belongs to a ring of international thieves, headed by Bechel (George Gebhardt).
01 April 1915
The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good.
05 January 1915
This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his change of fortune.
26 April 1915
Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a mechanic, Helen yearns for fine clothes, wealth, and attention.
26 February 1915
A short comic film in which a bickering duo start a taxi company. A constantly quarrelling duo, consisting of a tall fat man and a short thin man, find a wallet on the street, with twenty dollars inside.
22 April 1915
Once upon a time a professor ordered the wax figure of King Woof, a celebrated eastern potentate who had died from eating too much pomegranate juice and who had a reputation for making history.
01 April 1915
A man trailing burglars is saved by a dog in this British short film.
17 November 1915
A blind woman is cured by a doctor, but when her sight is restored she accidently mistakes her kind lover for his wayward younger brother and no one deems to correct her ‘fearing for her psyche’.
10 April 1915
A dead child's broken doll reunites an estranged husband and wife.
13 September 1915
Richard Duvall is a young American detective in the employ of the French Secret Police. While in Paris he meets Grace Ellicot, also an American, with whom he falls in love.
11 May 1915
Early german comedy short.
01 October 1915
Bruce Marsden, a former millionaire fallen on bad times, marries Helen Stanhope against her mother's wishes.
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