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The Clean Heart (1924)
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton
Overview
Newspaper editor and successful novelist Philip Wriford suffers a mental breakdown from overwork and worry over having to support orphaned children. To get away from the “other self” he imagines is following him, he wanders into the country and befriends Puddlebox, a philosophical tramp, who sacrifices his own life to save Philip. While recovering in a hospital, he meets Essie who eventually restores him to health and happiness. A lost film.
Length 80 minutes
Actors
Percy Marmont | Otis Harlan | Marguerite De La Motte | Andrew Arbuckle | Martha Petelle | Violet La Plante