The Primrose Path (1925 film)
The Primrose Path is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Harry O. Hoyt and starring Wallace MacDonald, Clara Bow and Arline Pretty.
Plot
Bruce Armstrong, a young man with a history of drinking and gambling ills, agrees to be part of a diamond-smuggling operation in order to pay off his debts to Tom Canfield, a corrupt Broadway producer. Armstrong completes his task, but he kills another conspirator, Big Joe Snead, in a fight after the diamonds are taken by a third conspirator, Dude Talbot. Shortly before Armstrong is to die in the electric chair, Talbot confesses to the police that he had pilfered the diamonds, that Snead was a ruthless killer, and that Armstrong certainly killed Snead in self-defense.Cast
- Wallace MacDonald as Bruce Armstrong
- Clara Bow as Marilyn Merrill
- Arline Pretty as Helen
- Stuart Holmes as Tom Canfield
- Pat Moore as Jimmy Armstrong
- Tom Santschi as Big Joe Snead
- Lydia Knott as Mrs. Armstrong
- Templar Saxe as Dude Talbot
- Mike Donlin as Federal Officer Parker
- Henry Hall as Court Officer
- George Irving as Prosecutor John Morton