Tin Gods (1926)
Have you built any "Tin Gods"? Do you crave money, success, fame? Have you allowed "Tin Gods" to trample over you?
90 min
In a mountain village in South America, Dr. McCoy and the padre watch Roger Drake enter a small chapel near a towering bridge, and McCoy recounts the story of Drake's life: As a rising engineer, he marries Janet Stone, the ambitious daughter of a wealthy family, and neglects his career while Janet becomes a candidate for the State Assembly. Drake comes into conflict with her political friends, and when their baby falls from its nursery window, the couple remorsefully decide to separate. Drake, degenerated by drink, goes to South America to construct a bridge; there he is stricken by fever and is redeemed by the love and care of Carita, a dancer. Carita, however, learns of Janet's political defeat and her attempt to effect a reconciliation with Drake; thinking he still loves his wife, she leaps from the bridge. Drake returns each year to the chapel he has erected in her memory. A lost film.
- Release date
- September 19, 1926
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Thomas Meighan as Roger Drake
- Renée Adorée as Carita
- Aileen Pringle as Janet Stone
- William Powell as Tony Santelli
- Hale Hamilton as Dr. McCoy
- John Harrington as Dougherty
- Joe King as First Foreman
- Robert Emmett O'Connor as Second Foreman
- Delbert Whitten Jr. as Billy
- Roy Applegate
Crew
- Allan Dwan · Director
- Paul Dickey · Writer
- James Shelley Hamilton · Writer
- William Anthony McGuire · Writer
- Howard Emmett Rogers · Writer
- Jesse L. Lasky · Producer
- Adolph Zukor · Producer
- Alvin Wyckoff · Cinematographer