21 Nov 2003
Oldboy
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Fires of Rebellion
Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is a drunk who beats his wife (Alice May Youss), and her sister Helen (Belle Bennett) has repeated the pattern by marrying Dan Mallory (Edward Brady). The new foreman, John Blake (William Stowell), fires Mallory. Mallory attacks him, but because of his alcohol abuse, his heart gives out and he dies. Blake asks Joe for Madge's hand, and he accepts for her. Madge longs for something better, when Cora, a former stenographer from the company (Golda Madden), writes her from the big city.
Top Billed Cast
Dorothy Phillips Madge Garvey
William Stowell John Blake
Lon Chaney Russell Hanlon
Belle Bennett Helen Mallory
Golda Madden Cora Hayes
Alice May Youse Mrs. Garvey
Ed Brady Dan Mallory
Dick La Reno Joe Garvey (as Richard La Reno)
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