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The Third Generation

7.0 50 mins Drama   1920
Brentwood Film Corporation  
Director(s): Henry Kolker

Release Date: 05 Mon, Jan 1920

When Alden Van Dusen, a third-generation member of a prestigious old New York family, is faced with the alternatives of allowing his firm to go bankrupt or becoming involved in fraud, he decides on suicide. As he is about to drown himself, Alden is attacked by a thug and, in the ensuing struggle, his assailant is killed. Seizing upon the opportunity, Alden changes identities with the dead man and drifts West, where he becomes an employee in his firm's mine.

Casts of The Third Generation

Betty Blythe

as Helen Van Dusen

Mahlon Hamilton

as Alden Van Dusen

Betty Brice

as Miss Scales

Jack Pratt

as Cuthbert Steele

Josef Swickard

as Colonel Alden Van Dusen

Fred Kelsey

as Brody

Peggy Cartwright

as Nancy Jane

Edward Cecil

as Bert Caldwell

Herbert Jones

as Barker

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