The Clean-Up (1915)
Miriam, daughter of wealthy politician John Barker is engaged to reporter George Prescott. Prescott is assigned to expose gambling conditions and discovers Barker is a grafter. Miriam doesn’t believe Prescott and breaks the engagement only to fall victim to gambling fever. When she is arrested in a raid on a gaming house her father sees the error of his ways and becomes a reform candidate of the "Clean-up" party. He wins and George and Miriam reunite.
- Date of release
- 1915-12-20
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 22m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Charles Bartlett
Casting
- Winifred Greenwood — Miriam Barker
- Frank Borzage — George Prescott
- George Field — Allan Hale
- Lizette Thorne — Claire Durand
- Al Fordyce — John Barker - Miriam's Father
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