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Means and Morals
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by E.H. Calvert
Cast: Edna Mayo [Irma Carson, a shopgirl], Bryant Washburn [Dick Hardy], Peggy Sweeney [Frances Sweeney, Irma’s friend], Thomas Commerford [the store manager]
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by H.S. Sheldon. / Released 11 May 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Irma Carson and Frances Smith are two little shopgirls who are forced to subsist on their salary of $6.00 a week. When the sundries are taken out, there is nothing left. Irma, urged by youthful appetite, craves a good, substantial meal, and in order to get it, goes out on the streets to accost men, taking the big chance that the man she meets will be the right sort. She meets Dick Hardy, who brings her to a restaurant. When he demands his pay, she lays the truth of the matter before him. She is a good girl, she is hungry and she took a long chance. Dick is the right sort. He escorts her to her room and on the way tells her he is a pickpocket. Then they separate and go out of each other’s lives. Later, a woman shopper in the store in which Irma works, misses her pocketbook. Glancing quickly down the aisle she sees Dick stuffing it in his clothes. Dirk is arrested. Irma sees the arrest and calls the manager, the shopper and others into the office. She tells the story of Dick and her. The manager is touched. The charge is dismissed and Dick is given a chance to make good. He does it and declares his love for Irma.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Poverty
Listing updated: 10 December 2024.
References: Bohn-Light p. 110 : Website-IMDb.
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