Film

The Mainspring

191650mDrama

Director: Jack Conway
Year: 1916

Finding himself penniless, Lawrence Ashmore, whose late father was ruined on the stock exchange, obtains a position as a reporter. Ashmore is assigned to investigate the reported fatal illness of Jesse Craven, one of Wall Street's financial monarchs.

Top cast

Ben F. Wilson

Lawrence Ashmore / Larry Craven

Francelia Billington

Jesse Craven

Wilbur Higby

Richard Creelman

Henry Holland

Edith Craven

Clyde Benson

William Ramsdale

Raymond Whittaker

Shackleton

Marc Robbins

Israel Farnum

Thomas Jefferson

James Sharp

Ed Brady

Jerviss

Mary Maurice

Bernice

Directed by

Jack Conway

Written by

Charles Agnew MacLean, William Parker