The Road to France (1918)

Tom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released from the draft because of an old football Injury, but a policeman persuades him that he can still do his bit in the shipyards. He takes a job in the yard owned by the man to whose daughter he was engaged in happier times. Three German propagandists seek to foment a strike to delay the work, and largely through Tom's efforts the plan goes amiss and the strike is called off. Rehabilitated by work, the launching of The Liberty is a forecast of his own rebirth.
- Released
- 1918-10-14
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Dell Henderson
Cast
- Carlyle Blackwell as Tom Whitney
- Evelyn Greeley as Helen Bemis
- Jack Drumier as John Bemis
- Muriel Ostriche as Mollie
- Richard Neill as Hector Winter
- Joseph W. Smiley as Chief of Police
- Al Hart as One-eyed Man (as Albert Hart)
- George De Carlton as Robert Whitney
- Jane Sterling as Mrs. Whitney
- Inez Shannon as Mrs. O'Leary
- Henry West as Burns
- Alex Shannon as Hugo Kraus
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