
Department-store clerk Larry Young is determined to marry a rich girl. He falls for Elaine Debaux, whom he believes to be the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder.

Will M. Ritchey, Frederick Orin Bartlett
United States

Step into the flickering shadows of 1918, a period when the world teetered on the brink, and cinema, still in its nascent, silent form, grappled with narratives that mirrored the profound societal shifts of the era. Alias Mike Moran, starring the magnetic Wallace Reid, emerges from this epoch as a compelling, if o...

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" Step into the flickering shadows of 1918, a period when the world teetered on the brink, and cinema, still in its nascent, silent form, grappled with narratives that mirrored the profound societal shifts of the era. Alias Mike Moran, starring the magnetic Wallace Reid, emerges from this epoch as a compelling, if often overlooked, artifact, a story that intertwines personal ambition with the inexorable demands of national duty. It's a film that, at its heart, dissects the very essence of ide..."


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