Wealthy businessman Carson Burr discovers first-hand the problem of social unrest when he loses his cook and his chauffeur and he is insulted by a waiter. Burr runs for mayor to improve the labor situation and is elected. The editor of The Red Messenger organizes the streetcar drivers to begin a general strike, but Burr manages to break up the strike
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Frank Keenan as Carson Burr
Kathleen Kerrigan as Mrs. Burr
Clark Marshall as Theodore Burr
Janice Wilson as Roxy Burr
Bert Sprotte as Nicolai Poppoff
Claire Du Brey as Emma Reich
Joseph McManus as George Knox
Frank Keenan Story
Frank Keenan Screenplay
Ernest C. Warde Director
Jack Cunningham Scenario Writer
United States 17 August 1919
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1919:
13 July 1919
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
01 April 1919
Rural melodrama about the social and humanistic events that occurred at the dawn of the past times.
15 November 1919
Walking aimlessly in the desert, crazed by thirst and hunger, Lucy Mannister and Gaston Sinclair are overtaken by her husband George, who has pursued them around the world.
19 January 1919
A beautiful young French girl falls in love with a handsome New Englander, but when they marry and return to his family home, she finds that she does not fit in at all.
25 May 1919
A near-forgotten film, Virtuous Sinners tells the story of Dawn Emerson (Wanda Hawley), an abused wife cast out into the street by her uncaring husband.
19 August 1919
In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in hopes of finding her beloved, but even after he and the other Acadians are released in Louisiana, she cannot find him, always arriving at some locale just after he has departed.
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