Old Home Week
Tom Clark, the part owner of a luckless gas station in New York, returns to his place of birth for Old Home Week, posing as the millionaire president of the Amalgamated Oil Co. He is chosen as the orator for the homecoming banquet and given complete financial control over an oil well drilled in the town by Coleman and Barton, a pair of oily swindlers. Tom discovers that the well is a fake and has it connected secretly with the local reservoir. A wire from Tom's partner is intercepted, and Tom is exposed as a fraud. Coleman and Barton are about to leave town when Tom fakes a gusher and quickly sells the well back to the swindlers at a profit. The swindlers realize that they have been outsmarted, and their anger convinces the townspeople that Tom has acted in the best interests of the community. Tom is again the toast of the town, feted by its inhabitants and rewarded with the kisses of his sweetheart.
Cast
Thomas Meighan
as Tom Clark
Lila Lee
as Ethel Harmon
Charles Dow Clark
as Marshall Coleman
Joseph W. Smiley
as Jim Ferguson
Larry Wheat
as J. Edward Brice
Max Figman
as Townsend Barton
Zelma Tiden
as Mary Clark
Sidney Paxton
as Judge Harmon
Jack Terry
as Frikkle
Isabel West
as Mrs. Clark
