
The owner of a resort hotel promotes Tom Gwynne, a college boy working as a waiter, to manager. As a result of his mismanagement the hotel loses several thousand dollars.


The Audacity of Idealism: Dissecting Tom Gwynne's Grand Experiment in 'A Million to Burn' In the annals of silent cinema, where narratives often explored the burgeoning complexities of a rapidly modernizing world, few films capture the intoxicating allure and precipitous downfall of unbridled idealism quite li...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

William Parke

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" The Audacity of Idealism: Dissecting Tom Gwynne's Grand Experiment in 'A Million to Burn' In the annals of silent cinema, where narratives often explored the burgeoning complexities of a rapidly modernizing world, few films capture the intoxicating allure and precipitous downfall of unbridled idealism quite like 1923's A Million to Burn. This cinematic offering, a fascinating relic from an era of burgeoning ambition and societal flux, plunges viewers into the whimsical yet ultimately ca..."
Raymond L. Schrock, Tom Whitside
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