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:
29 August 1919
About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
01 June 1919
Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged.
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.
17 November 1919
Ranch foreman Kerry has boarded with Kitty Tynan and her mother for five years in western Canada, his past is a mystery to everyone.
16 November 1919
When jockey Jimmie Driscoll, responsible for making Jim Richardson's horses winners, is fired for being too heavy, he goes to the home of the late Judge Bell, the father of local horse racing.
26 April 1919
Disguised as a peaceful sheepman, Clayburn is actually a government ranger sent to Point Rock to find the leaders of a band of rustlers.
30 November 1919
A henpecked husband goes out on a series of adventures. He is pursued by cops and detectives and joins the Salvation Army in an effort to escape.
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.
29 June 1919
A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.
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