Experience
1921Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.
Acted in
Richard Barthelmess
as Youth
John Miltern
as Experience
Marjorie Daw
as Love
E.J. Ratcliffe
as Ambition
Betty Carpenter
as Hope
Kate Bruce
as Mother
Lilyan Tashman
as Pleasure
R. Senoir
as Opportunity
Joseph W. Smiley
as Chance
Fred Hadley
as Tout
Harry J. Lane
as Despair
Helen Ray
as Intoxication
Jed Prouty
as Good Nature
Barney Furey
as Poverty
Charles A. Stevenson
as Wealth
Edna Wheaton
as Beauty
Yvonne Routon
as Fashion
Ned Hay
as Sport
Sibyl Carmen
as Excitement
Robert Schable
as Conceit
Nita Naldi
as Temptation
Frank Evans
as Work
Frank McCormack
as Delusion
Louis Wolheim
as Crime
Agnes Marc
as Habit
Mrs. Gallagher
as Degradation
Florence Flinn
as Frailty
Mac Barnes
as Makeshift
Leslie King
as Gloom
Leslie Banks
Reginald Denny