David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however, determined to succeed and kept happy by his love for Helen Chambers and for his bosom friend Morton, who is a young minister working among the people on the East Side.
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Robert Warwick as David Aldrich
Vernon Steele as Reverend Philip Morton
Anna Q. Nilsson as Helen Chambers
Christine Mayo as Lillian Drew
Dion Titheradge as Tom
Jessie Lewis as Katye Morgan
Robert Forsyth as Alexander Chambers
United States 20 March 1916
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