Comedy ·Drama · United States of America · 1922 · 1h 20m

Back Home and Broke

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Director
Alfred E. Green
Cast
Thomas Meighan as Tom Redding Lila Lee as Mary Thorne Frederick Burton as Otis Grimley Cyril Ring as Eustace Grimley Charles S. Abbe as H.H. Hornby Florence Dixon as Olivia Hornby
Crew
Henry Cronjager — Director of Photography George Ade — Story
Tagline

To roll back to the old "home town" some day in a limousine- that's the ambition of every boy who leaves Main street to seek his fortune. George Ade has put this idea into his funniest, most human story.

Synopsis

When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from all his debt, Tom heads west and eventually strikes it rich with an oil well. Now wealthy, he hatches a plan to get even with his "friends" in his hometown--by pretending to return home broke but having a colleague secretly buy up as much property in town as he can.

Key Collaborators
Alfred E. Green Director Henry Cronjager Director of Photography George Ade Story
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