Virtuous Men

Virtuous Men

NR 1919 · ★ 7.0 · Drama

When Bob Stokes, a wealthy New York clubman, loses his fortune, he is jilted by his fiancée Marcia Fontaine. He then wanders to an upstate lumber camp where he impresses the owner, Henry Willard, with his leadership and fighting abilities. After Stokes quells a strike engineered by the previous foreman, Robert Brummon, who is really a Bolshevik agitator, to prevent shipments of lumber for government contracts, Brummon, seeking revenge, sets the forest on fire, but Stokes controls it. Willard then sends for Stokes to oversee his New York shipyards where a government "mystery ship" is under construction. After Stokes and Willard's daughter Helen fall in love, Brummon gets Marcia to attempt to seduce Stokes. Marcia lures Stokes to her apartment, where Brummon plans to kill him, but he escapes when he learns that a time bomb is set to destroy the ship.

Directed by Ralph Ince

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E.K. Lincoln Bob Stokes
Grace Darling Helen Willard
Clara Joel Marcia Fontaine
Robert Cummings Robert Brummon
John P. Wade Henry Willard
William B. Mack Mocket
Irving Brooks Clarkson

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