
An inventor starts a family with his childhood sweetheart, but after he becomes successful, he becomes restless and takes up with another woman. However, the woman's true nature is revealed, he realizes his mistake.


Lois Weber, the visionary who once split the screen between a penitentiary and a nursery in Hypocrites, here trains her lens on the male id with surgical frost. What Do Men Want?—a title spat like a dare—never answers its own question in words; instead, it lets the silents scream through cigarette haze and silk stock...

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" Lois Weber, the visionary who once split the screen between a penitentiary and a nursery in Hypocrites, here trains her lens on the male id with surgical frost. What Do Men Want?—a title spat like a dare—never answers its own question in words; instead, it lets the silents scream through cigarette haze and silk stockings draped over chaise longues like discarded vows. Edith Kessler’s ingenue-turned-wife, Ruth, enters wearing gingham candor, eyes wide as trolley tracks. Her gait has the bounce..."
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