The Third Generation (1920)
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When Alden Van Dusen, a third-generation member of a prestigious old New York family, is faced with the alternatives of allowing his firm to go bankrupt or becoming involved in fraud, he decides on suicide. As he is about to drown himself, Alden is attacked by a thug and, in the ensuing struggle, his assailant is killed. Seizing upon the opportunity, Alden changes identities with the dead man and drifts West, where he becomes an employee in his firm's mine.
- Release date
- January 5, 1920
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Betty Blythe as Helen Van Dusen
- Mahlon Hamilton as Alden Van Dusen
- Jack Pratt as Cuthbert Steele
- Josef Swickard as Colonel Alden Van Dusen
- Edward Cecil as Bert Caldwell
- Betty Brice as Miss Scales
- Herbert Jones as Barker
- Fred Kelsey as Brody
- Peggy Cartwright as Nancy Jane
Crew
- Henry Kolker · Director
- Henry Kolker · Writer
- Arthur Ripley · Writer
- Charles R. Seeling · Cinematographer