Overview
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
Director and cast
- Victor Halperin Director
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Jay Rountree
- Jeanette Loff as Ellen Powell
- Judith Barrie as Leeda Cather
- Marie Prevost as Diana Hoster
- John St. Polis as John Rountree
- Sammy Blum as Sam Metten
- Harry Northrup as Robert Lowry
- Almeda Fowler as Maude Lindsay
- Hal Price as Lew Albans
- Charles Giblyn as Lawrence Doyle
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