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Greater Wealth
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Colin Campbell
Cast: Hobart Bosworth [John Sharon], Eugenie Besserer [Mrs. John Sharon], Wheeler Oakman [Harold Sharon, John’s wayward son], Tom Santschi [Ed Young], Bessie Eyton [Mrs. Ed Young], Baby Lillian Wade [Little Mary Young], Frank Clark [Louis Schwartz, the first laborer], Eddie James [John Ericson, the second laborer], Fred Huntley [Doctor John Meekins], Camille Astor [the nurse]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by Lanier Bartlett. / Released 2 January 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure because his income shrinks as his family responsibilities increase. Sharon’s only son is a drunken disappointment, his wife becomes alienated from him, and his daughter falls critically ill. Young, while visiting Sharon, learns to his dismay that his own beloved daughter is very sick. Some professional agitators induce him to attend an anarchistic meeting, and he is prevailed upon to “remove” Sharon as an enemy of mankind. The night the millionaire’s daughter dies, his own recovers; and he confronts Sharon just as he returns shaken from the death-bed scene. With wonderful coolness and sympathy Sharon convinces the would-be assassin that he has a right to happiness be has never enjoyed. The picture of his palatial home and empty heart, stays the assassin’s knife and leads to a better deservance of the opportunities of life.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 8 January 2025.
References: Sloan-Loud pp. 50, 148 : Website-IMDb.
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