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Based on a John Galsworthy play, this film follows an aging English shipping chairman in Liverpool. Facing bankruptcy and ill health, he concocts an unethical scheme to provide a financial future for his two illegitimate grandchildren. This single-minded devotion to his family leads him down a dark path of fraud and ultimately towards a tragic conclusion involving suicide, leaving a complicated legacy.

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Directed by

Alfred E. Green

Starring

George Arliss, Leonore Ulric, Doris Lloyd