Back Home and Broke
To roll back to the old "home town" some day in a limousine- that's the ambition of every boy who leaves Main street to seek his fortune. George Ade has put this idea into his funniest, most human story.
1922 · 1h 20m Comedy, Drama
Overview
When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from all his debt, Tom heads west and eventually strikes it rich with an oil well. Now wealthy, he hatches a plan to get even with his "friends" in his hometown--by pretending to return home broke but having a colleague secretly buy up as much property in town as he can.
Director and cast
- Thomas Meighan as Tom Redding
- Lila Lee as Mary Thorne
- Cyril Ring as Eustace Grimley
- Richard Carlyle as John Thorne
- Maude Turner Gordon as Mrs. Redding
- Larry Wheat as Billy Andrews
- Eddie Borden as Collector
- Frederick Burton as Otis Grimley
- Charles S. Abbe as H.H. Hornby
- Florence Dixon as Olivia Hornby
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