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The Spendthrift (1915)

The Spendthrift poster
Directed by
Walter Edwin
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is married to a man who spends money recklessly, causing problems. She has to deal with the consequences of his financial habits.

early cinemasimpletheatricalearnesttempo 1910sunderstatedplainmoralistic

What happens

The Spendthrift is a 1915 silent film drama directed by Walter Edwin and starring Irene Fenwick. It is based on a 1910 Broadway play, The Spendthrift, by Porter Emerson Browne. It is a surviving film in the Library of Congress collections. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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