The Third Generation

When Alden Van Dusen, a third-generation member of a prestigious old New York family, is faced with the alternatives of allowing his firm to go bankrupt or becoming involved in fraud, he decides on suicide. As he is about to drown himself, Alden is attacked by a thug and, in the ensuing struggle, his assailant is killed. Seizing upon the opportunity, Alden changes identities with the dead man and drifts West, where he becomes an employee in his firm's mine.

Cast

Betty Blythe

Mahlon Hamilton

Betty Brice

Jack Pratt

Josef Swickard

Fred Kelsey

Peggy Cartwright

Edward Cecil

Herbert Jones