Drama · United States of America · 1917 · 50m

Life's Whirlpool

Director

Cast

Ethel Barrymore as Esther Carey Alan Hale as Dr. Henry Grey Paul Everton as B.J. Hendrix Ricca Allen as Ruth Martin Reginald Carrington as John Martin Frank Leigh as Dirk Kanset

Crew

Lionel Barrymore — Writer

Synopsis

Ethel Barrymore plays the wife of an abusive country squire. So nasty is her husband that he all but forces her to seek solace in the arms of her former sweetheart (played by Alan Hale in his leading-man period). Their clandestine relationship finally comes out in the open when the nasty husband is killed by his irate tenants.

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