Fruits of Desire (1916)

Mark Truitt dreams of becoming a steel magnate, so he leaves his home in the country and his sweetheart Unity and settles in Pittsburgh. He starts out as a laborer in the steel mill but soon becomes a foreman and then a superintendent. Mark lives with the shop foreman, whose daughter Kazia falls in love with him. Truitt, however, returns alone to his hometown and builds his own mill. Wealthy now, he marries Unity, but money changes her, so the couple gets a divorce. In the end, Mark goes back to Pittsburgh, finds Kazia, who has never stopped loving him, and marries her.
- Released
- 1916-01-31
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 50 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Oscar Eagle
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Robert Warwick as Mark Truitt
- Madlaine Traverse as Kazia
- Robert Cummings as Thomas Henley
- Adolph Lestina as Rev. Courtenay
- Alec B. Francis as Jeremiah Quimby
- Julia Stuart as Hanka
- Dorothy Fairchild as Unity
- Ralph Delmore as Roman Androskia
- D.J. Flanagan as Blair
- James T. Mack as Piotr
- James Ewens as Gracy
- Philip Basi as Dr. Graham