07 Sep 1940
The Briggs Family
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
The Inherited Taint
Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another man. Warning takes to drinking. When he meets Kathleen Holt, a nurse, he falls in love and asks her to marry him. She promises to do so if he can give up drinking for one year.
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Maurice Costello Herbert Warning
Helen Gardner The Nurse
Lillian Walker The Coquette
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