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:
09 March 1919
A tough fellow from out West falls for young woman who is being pursued by a smarmy high-society type.
29 December 1919
Masked bandit The Lincoln Highwayman terrorizes motorists on California highways. His latest victims are a San Francisco banker and his family on their way to a party.
14 October 1919
Two prospectors, one the father of Sky "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe.
29 August 1919
About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
19 April 1919
One of the series of Bobby Bumps silent animated shorts made at Bray Studios.
02 March 1919
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
25 May 1919
Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (Jack Holt) in order to satisfy an old grudge.
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.
12 October 1919
Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up business in a Western mining camp.
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