Experience (1921)
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.
Director: George Fitzmaurice
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Richard Barthelmess as Youth |
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John Miltern as Experience |
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Marjorie Daw as Love |
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E.J. Ratcliffe as Ambition |
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Betty Carpenter as Hope |
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Kate Bruce as Mother |
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Lilyan Tashman as Pleasure |
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R. Senoir as Opportunity |
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Joseph W. Smiley as Chance |
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Fred Hadley as Tout |
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Harry J. Lane as Despair |
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Helen Ray as Intoxication |
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Jed Prouty as Good Nature |
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Barney Furey as Poverty |
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Charles A. Stevenson as Wealth |
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Edna Wheaton as Beauty |
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Yvonne Routon as Fashion |
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Ned Hay as Sport |
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Sibyl Carmen as Excitement |
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Robert Schable as Conceit |
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Nita Naldi as Temptation |
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Frank Evans as Work |
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Frank McCormack as Delusion |
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Louis Wolheim as Crime |
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Agnes Marc as Habit |
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Mrs. Gallagher as Degradation |
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Florence Flinn as Frailty |
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Mac Barnes as Makeshift |
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Leslie King as Gloom |
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Leslie Banks as |
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Reginald Denny as |
| Directing | George Fitzmaurice | Director |
| Writing | George V. Hobart | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Waldemar Young | Writer |
| Camera | Arthur C. Miller | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Adolph Zukor | Presenter |