The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY Service Page For frank Mayo In "Honor Bound" Mayo ONivEiasAi, AT A GLANCE SUBJECT— "Honor Bound." LENGTH— Five reels. STAR— Frank Mayo. PREVIOUS HITS— "Lasca," "The Brute Breaker," "The Girl in Number 29," "The Red Lane," "Hitchin' Posts," "The Marriage Pit," etc. DIRECTED BY— Jacques Jaccard. STORY BY— Jacques Jaccard. SCENARIO BY-^acques Jaccard. SUPPORTING CAST— Edward Coxen, Helen Lynch, Dagmar Godowsky, Nick de Ruiz, Irene Blackwell, Gordon Sackville, Max Willink, C. W. Herzinger, LOCALE— New York, On Board a Yacht, and in the South American Rubber Country. TIME— The present. THUMB NAIL THEME— The story of a society ne'er-do-well who loses his friends and his fiancee through his weakness and who is given a last chance to redeem himself in a new country. Face to face with the primitive, he develops latent powers and qualities which not only reinstate him in the eyes of the world, but which finally win back for him the love he had lost. CAST Billy Thorpe.: Frank Mayo James Ellison ... Edward Coxen ^oree _ Dagmar Godowsky Santos Cordero Nick De Ruiz Mary Ellison Irene Blackwell Claire Vincent Helen Lynch Geo. K. Vincent Gordon Sackville Lord Stanlaw Maitland Max Willink Capt. Bamett C. W. Herzinger THE STORY gECAUSE of a wild escapade on the eve of his marriage to the daughter of the Rubber King, Billy Thorpe, a careless ne'er-do-well, finds himself on trial before a jury of his own people. His fiancee, Claire, wants to return the ring. She is dissuaded by his sister Mary, who knows that would spoil his life. Claire's father says, "I'm going to send you to assist your brother-in-law on my biggest South American plantation." Three months latei^ it is evident that Thorpe is in the right place. Gratified by increased shipments and lowered costs, the Rubber King takes Claire and Mary on a cruise to visit the men. Ellison, before he left his wife to come to the tropics a year before, was well-groomed, a gentleman, with strength and standing under the protection of civilization. In the poisonous tropics he has degenerated to a whisky-soaked wreck. In exact antithesis, Thorpe, a scapegrace in an effete environment is doing the work for which Ellison receives credit. In Espiritu is unmoral, beautiful Korea, who lives as simply and unashamed as an animal of the forest. In return for gin the bestial brute called Santos Cordero, her lord and master, temporarily turns her over to Ellison. On the wings of dawn comtes the Albatross, the yacht. Thorpe drags Ellison from Koree's hut and makes him brace up to go on board. Ellison excuses his dissipation as the haggardness of overwork That evening strams of syncopation float to the beach and bring to Koree faint urgmgs and memories of the campfires and tomtoms. She swims to the yacht, where Ellison is talking to the gay party gathered below deck. "It isn't the work that makes living so hard here, it's *ie lack of pretty women " Crash! Through the hatch drops a startled beauty like a naked forest nymph. Ellison dodges from view and she runs to Thorpe. Next day when Thorpe declines Claire's invitation to accompany them down the coast, she suspects that it's not work that keeps him. Mary stops off with her husband, who explains to Koree that she is Thorpe's sweetheart. He tells Mary that Koree is Thorpe's friend. Thorpe is astounded when Koree refers to "your sweetheart," and begins to understand why his sister is so cold to him. Koree sees Ellison embracing Marj', and Thorpe interferes. At the same time his last chance to make good in the eyes of Claire is ruined. He resolves to attempt no defence, so that Mary will be happy, but privately he thrashes Ellison. His reversion to type is complete. In revenge Ellison brings Cordero to Mary. Thori)e hears the halfbreed's lies in silence at first, then attacks him furiously. They have a terrible fight with army sabres and Thorpe runs the brute through just as the Albatross sails back into the harbor. Ellison reports that Thorpe lost his head over a woman, and Thorpe keeps silent to save his sister from the ti-uth. When even Claire refuses to take his word for what happened, Thorpe leaps overboard in spite of his wounds, and swims ashore. Koree nurses him in her hut; he has faJlen to the bottom of the social scale. Claire questions Koree and learns the true circumstances. She and Thorpe are reconciled and decide to make their home there. Ellison returns to civilization, where he regains his former status as a gentleman. ADVERTISING DISPLAY UNES Is morality a matter of geography? If you're naughty maybe you ought to move. See "Honor Bound." In a part of the world where society is quite unmoral, strange things happen to men who stray from civilization. See "Honor Bound" with Frank Mayo. The strangest triangle ever thought of is that of a man who is moral, a man who is immoral and a woman who is simply unmoral— in "Honor Bound."