Sheldon Polk's father, a wealthy banker, agrees to make a loan to Frank Farnsworth. Sheldon is robbed while delivering the money and is arrested for theft on circumstantial evidence.
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Herbert Rawlinson as Sheldon Polk
Ruth Dwyer as Sunny Day
Hayden Stevenson as Frank Farnsworth
Robert Homans as 'Dippy' Blake
Walter Perry as Chris Martin
Bonnie Hill as Rita Minar
Kathleen O'Connor as Geraldine Lewis
Gloria Roy as Madge Armstrong
Emmett King as Henry Polk
Lola Todd as Stenographer
Tom McGuire as Police Chief
Betsy Ann Hisle as Little Girl (uncredited)
Robert F. Hill Director
William Thornley Director of Photography
Marion Orth Story
Gordon Rigby Scenario Writer
United States 22 June 1924
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1924:
20 September 1924
A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends.
11 November 1924
A young Countess meets a young Count and they share a common interest in fast cars.
31 August 1924
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit.
21 December 1924
After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis.
01 July 1924
A man's second wife is blackmailed by her former husband for the murder of her lover.
09 March 1924
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
29 March 1924
The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.
01 December 1924
Ruth Rogens (Sylvia Breamer) is married to policeman John Rogens (Jack Mower), whose work causes him to neglect her.
20 January 1924
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie.
29 May 1924
Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs.
18 August 1924
Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke considerable mirth among the passengers by their efforts.
12 September 1924
The film is about the class struggle in the village between the various strata of society on the eve of Soviet powerformation.
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