Name: It's a Great Life
Released: 1920
Cast: Cullen Landis, Molly Malone, Clara Horton, Howard Halston, Otto Hoffman

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

The Empire Builders, This is the Life

Release Date

Aug 29, 1920

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Eminent Authors Pictures, Inc.

Distribution Company

Goldwyn Distributing Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "Empire Builders" by Mary Roberts Rinehart in The Saturday Evening Post (20 May 1916).

Synopsis

Stoddard and the Wop are the terrors of Pomptonvale prep school. One night, while eating in a restaurant, the Wop finds a pearl embedded in an oyster, which sparks visions of a trip to the Solomon Islands where treasures in the shape of pearls await them. Before they can embark upon their adventure, Stoddard succumbs to the charms of Eloise Randall, the schoolmaster's daughter. Attempting to find another pearl to present his new love, Stoddard consumes enough oysters to send him to the school infirmary. Several days later, his old sweetheart, Lucille Graham, pays Stoddard a visit in the hospital and Stoddard decides to remain in Pomptonvale, thus dispelling all dreams of a pearl empire.