Fruits of Desire (1916)

Fruits of Desire

1916

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Oscar Eagle

Cast

Adolph Lestina as Rev. Courtenay

Alec B. Francis as Jeremiah Quimby

D.J. Flanagan as Blair

Dorothy Fairchild as Unity

James T. Mack as Piotr

Julia Stuart as Hanka

Madlaine Traverse as Kazia

Ralph Delmore as Roman Androskia