Name: The Corner Grocer
Released: 1917
Cast: Lew Fields, Madge Evans, Lillian Cook, Nick Long Jr., William Sherwood

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Oct 1, 1917

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

World Film Corp.; Peerless

Distribution Company

World Film Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play The Corner Grocery by Adolph Philipp (New York, 4 Feb 1894).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

Kindhearted Charles Wendel, who has built his pushcart grocery business into a prosperous enterprise, adopts little eight-year-old Mary Brian after her mother dies in poverty. The little girl becomes the angel of the house, beloved by all. Wendel's dream is that his son Ralph will carry on the business, but when Ralph graduates from college, he decides that he is too good for the grocery business. Instead, he goes to work in a bank where he falls prey to swindlers who convince him to forge his father's name on a $100,000 check. When the forgery is discovered, the old man covers the check at the cost of his own financial ruin. Ralph, chagrinned, leaves home to make good and soon after returns, prosperous, to wed Mary and restore the fortune and happiness of the Wendel family.