Morals for Men (1925)
Joe (Tearle) and Bessie (Ayres), living in sin and just scraping by. Bessie thinks Joe has stolen their meagre savings, so she leaves him and becomes a manicurist eventually marrying a wealthy man who turns out to be stingy and cruel. Joe saves heiress Marion (Mills) from drowning, makes good as a civil engineer and eventually marries her. Joe and Bessie meet again by chance and Joe, in helping her to keep her secret, incurs Marion's jealousy. Bessie, extorted by a former acquaintance in desperation, decides to tell everything to her husband. However, to aid Joe she accuses Wallace (Miljan), with whom Marion is preparing to go away. Finally, Joe and Marion are reconciled, but Bessie learns that the world never forgives a woman who sins even when she has reformed.
- Date of release
- 1925-12-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Bernard H. Hyman
Casting
- Conway Tearle — Joe Strickland
- Agnes Ayres — Bessie Hayes
- Alyce Mills — Marion Winslow
- Otto Matieson — Frank Bowman
- Robert Ober — Harvey Larkin
- John Miljan — Wallace
- Mary Beth Milford
- Eve Southern — Mrs. Strickland
- Marjery O'Neill
Interesting facts
Morals for Men is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Bernard H. Hyman and starring Conway Tearle, Agnes Ayres, and Alyce Mills. It is based upon the novel The Lucky Serum by Gouverneur Morris.
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