A 1923 inventor loses everything, forgives his enemy, and gets adopted by optimistically-named daughters. Silent cinema hits different.
Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his plans. Poverty and disappointment make him a derelict, but he forgives his enemy and finds happiness after Moore's daughters, Hope and Joy, befriend him.
Acting
Percy Marmont's derelict transformation — silent era face-acting at its finest.
Production
Preserved by Gosfilmofond — survived revolution, war, and total obscurity.
Director
Victor Schertzinger
Percy Marmont
John Turbin
Jane Novak
Hope Moore (courtesy of Chester Bennett)
Eva Novak
Joy Moore
Cullen Landis
Harold Trevis
Hobart Bosworth
'Iron Man' Moore
Lydia Knott
John's Mother
Gertrude Short
Paula
Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Jerry (as Ralph Bushman)
Lincoln Stedman
Muggsy
George Siegmann
Crogan
George Beranger
Leo Friend (as André de Beranger)
William Humphrey
The Lawyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gosfilmofond's preservation of this 1923 American film inside a Russian archive is wild Cold War cultural archaeology — nobody knows how it got there.
Director Victor Schertzinger later composed jazz standards and directed Road pictures with Bob Hope — this melodrama phase was basically his origin story.
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