Manslaughter

Manslaughter

🎞️ Movie 100 min US
โ˜… 6.3 /10 1922

For the rich and poor, the beautiful and plain-there's only one law! She has broken it and must pay!

Lydia Thorne, a wealthy girl who loves speed and thrills, is unsympathetic when Evans, her maid, is jailed for stealing her jewels. District Attorney Daniel O'Bannon visits Lydia to make her see the error of her own ways, but instead views a scene of Lydia and her friends that reminds him of a Roman orgy. O'Bannon feels it is his duty, therefore, to send Lydia to jail for her own good when her automobile driving causes the death of a motorcycle policeman. Lydia is resentful, and her rebuff of O'Bannon, who has come to love her, causes him such remorse that he turns to drink and dissipation. Meanwhile, Lydia reforms, realizes she loves O'Bannon, and resolves to do charitable work. She and Evans open a soup kitchen after their release, and a chance meeting with O'Bannon starts him on the road to recovery. With Lydia's encouragement he becomes himself again, runs for governor, but withdraws his candidacy to marry Lydia when he sees that her record would be a liability to him in politics.

Cast

Leatrice Joy
Leatrice Joy
Lydia Thorne
Thomas Meighan
Thomas Meighan
Daniel J. O'Bannon
Lois Wilson
Lois Wilson
Evans - Lydia's Maid
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John Miltern
Gov. Stephan Albee
George Fawcett
George Fawcett
Judge Homans
Julia Faye
Julia Faye
Mrs. Drummond
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Edythe Chapman
Adeline Bennett
Jack Mower
Jack Mower
Drummond - Policeman
Dorothy Cumming
Dorothy Cumming
Eleanor Bellington
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Casson Ferguson
Bobby Dorest
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L. Guy Wilky
Cinematographer
Alvin Wyckoff
Alvin Wyckoff
Cinematographer