The Third Generation
When Alden Van Dusen, a third-generation member of a prestigious old New York family, is faced with the alternatives of allowing his firm to go bankrupt or becoming involved in fraud, he decides on suicide. As he is about to drown himself, Alden is attacked by a thug and, in the ensuing struggle, his assailant is killed. Seizing upon the opportunity, Alden changes identities with the dead man and drifts West, where he becomes an employee in his firm's mine.
Cast
Betty Blythe
as Helen Van Dusen
Mahlon Hamilton
as Alden Van Dusen
Betty Brice
as Miss Scales
Jack Pratt
as Cuthbert Steele
Josef Swickard
as Colonel Alden Van Dusen
Fred Kelsey
as Brody
Peggy Cartwright
as Nancy Jane
Edward Cecil
as Bert Caldwell
Herbert Jones
as Barker
