
Although Earle Courtney has married factory girl Annie Leigh, his millionaire father, Major James Courtney, is determined that Earle will marry the wealthy Ethel Ainsworth. Courtney kidnaps his son and sends a message to Annie requesting an annulment, to which he signs Earle's name.

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George D. Baker’s Sowers and Reapers (1917) is a furnace of silk and soot, a melodrama that understands wealth as both costume and crematorium. The film begins inside a mill where looms clack like iron lungs: Annie Leigh—petite, soot-lashed, luminous in the grease-smoke—threads bobbins while the heir-apparent Earle C...

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" George D. Baker’s Sowers and Reapers (1917) is a furnace of silk and soot, a melodrama that understands wealth as both costume and crematorium. The film begins inside a mill where looms clack like iron lungs: Annie Leigh—petite, soot-lashed, luminous in the grease-smoke—threads bobbins while the heir-apparent Earle Courtney, all white collar and cavalry posture, prowls the aisles under the pretext of inspecting his father’s holdings. Baker shoots their first meeting through a lattice of leathe..."


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