The Mainspring

(1916)

Genres: Drama

Year: 1916

Runtime: 50 мин

Director: Jack Conway

Cast: Ben F. Wilson, Francelia Billington, Wilbur Higby, Henry Holland, Clyde Benson, Raymond Whittaker, Marc Robbins, Thomas Jefferson, Ed Brady, Mary Maurice

Plot

Finding himself penniless, Lawrence Ashmore, whose late father was ruined on the stock exchange, obtains a position as a reporter. Ashmore is assigned to investigate the reported fatal illness of Jesse Craven, one of Wall Street's financial monarchs.