Back Home and Broke
“To roll back to the old "home town" some day in a limousine- that's the ambition of every boy who leaves Main street to seek his fortune. George Ade has put this idea into his funniest, most human story.”
When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from all his debt, Tom heads west and eventually strikes it rich with an oil well. Now wealthy, he hatches a plan to get even with his "friends" in his hometown--by pretending to return home broke but having a colleague secretly buy up as much property in town as he can.
Rating
9.0/10
1 votes
Runtime
80 min
Theatrical cut
Released
1922
Released
Language
EN
Back Home and Broke
Cast
Thomas Meighan
Tom Redding
Lila Lee
Mary Thorne
Frederick Burton
Otis Grimley
Cyril Ring
Eustace Grimley
Charles S. Abbe
H.H. Hornby
Florence Dixon
Olivia Hornby
Gertrude Quinlan
Aggie Twaddle
Richard Carlyle
John Thorne
Maude Turner Gordon
Mrs. Redding
Larry Wheat
Billy Andrews
Ned Burton
Horace Beemer
James Marlowe
Policeman
Eddie Borden
Collector
