The Curse of Drink

The Curse of Drink

1922 · 60 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

Bill Sanford, once a first-rate railroad engineer and happy father, is victimized by bootleggers and soon becomes known as the village drunkard. His daughter, Ruth, a stenographer, is in love with her employer's son, Harry, but his father, Rand, opposes the match, though he consents to it when Sanford seems to reform.

Directed by Harry O. Hoyt

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