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The Open Road (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

The Open Road (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

Tom, the son of a millionaire, marries Gladys de Vere, a chorus girl. His father, hearing of this, disowns the boy. Learning that her husband will be penniless, Gladys soon leaves him. Tom, cast off by father and wife, has nowhere to go ...See moreTom, the son of a millionaire, marries Gladys de Vere, a chorus girl. His father, hearing of this, disowns the boy. Learning that her husband will be penniless, Gladys soon leaves him. Tom, cast off by father and wife, has nowhere to go and listens to the lure of the open road. Answering its call, he becomes a tramp. Before long the long constant walking in the air makes a new man out of the dissipated youth. He meets a traveling Uncle Tom show and they give him a job pasting billboards. He falls in love with Linette, a pretty actress, thereby incurring the enmity of Joe Briggs, an actor. Joe and Tom come to blows and in this fight Tom discovers the good that the open road worked in his heretofore feeble muscles, and he knocks the actor out with no difficulty at all, thus winning the right to pay court to Linette. But as Tom looks into the trusting face of the girt, whom he knows returns his love, he remembers that other woman to whom he gave his name and he knows he has no right to make love to this girl. A detective hired by Tom's father follows the show, and tells the boy that his father wants him back. When Tom asks for Gladys, he hears that she was never really his wife, as she had a husband living when she married him. Tom, in delight at his freedom, rushes to Linette and wins her consent to their marriage. But when his father learns that his son has again married an actress he refuses to receive him. Tom and Linette come to the city hoping to get work and while there read in the papers that the old man is very ill and that only the transfusion of blood from some healthy man can save him. Tom volunteers and readily passes the doctor's examination. His father is saved and when Tom is wheeled in and the old man hears the truth, he becomes reconciled to his son and to Linette. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Irving Cummings Tom / Liza in Play Tom / Liza in Play See fewer	Curly Top (1935)
Gertrude Robinson Linette Linette See fewer	The Feud and the Turkey (1908)
Ralph Lewis Tom's Father Tom's Father See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Nancy Avril Gladys de Vere Gladys de Vere See fewer	Rob Roy (1913)
George Siegmann Joe Briggs Joe Briggs See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Edward P. Sullivan Ben Tibbett / Uncle Tom in Play Ben Tibbett / Uncle Tom in Play See fewer	Evangeline (1914)