Morals for Men (1925)
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Joe (Tearle) and Bessie (Ayres), living in sin and just scraping by. Bessie thinks Joe has stolen their meagre savings, so she leaves him and becomes a manicurist eventually marrying a wealthy man who turns out to be stingy and cruel. Joe saves heiress Marion (Mills) from drowning, makes good as a civil engineer and eventually marries her. Joe and Bessie meet again by chance and Joe, in helping her to keep her secret, incurs Marion's jealousy. Bessie, extorted by a former acquaintance in desperation, decides to tell everything to her husband. However, to aid Joe she accuses Wallace (Miljan), with whom Marion is preparing to go away. Finally, Joe and Marion are reconciled, but Bessie learns that the world never forgives a woman who sins even when she has reformed.
- Release date
- December 1, 1925
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Conway Tearle as Joe Strickland
- Agnes Ayres as Bessie Hayes
- Alyce Mills as Marion Winslow
- Otto Matieson as Frank Bowman
- Robert Ober as Harvey Larkin
- John Miljan as Leonard Wallace
- Mary Beth Milford as Mary
- Eve Southern as Mrs. Strickland
- Marjery O'Neill
Crew
- Bernard H. Hyman · Director
- Gouverneur Morris · Writer
- Philbin Stoneman · Writer
- Andrew Percival Younger · Writer
- Roland Price · Cinematographer
- James C. McKay · Editor