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To Him That Hath
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5963 feet
Directed by Oscar Apfel
Cast: Montagu Love [David Aldrich], Reginald Carrington [Philip Morton], George De Carlton [Alexander Chambers], George Lessey [Henry Allen], Charles Jackson [Tom Jenks], Gertrude McCoy [Helen Chambers], Clio Ayres [Kate Hoover], Marion Barney [Lillian Drew], Edward Elkas [James Hoover], Dean Raymond [Doctor Franklin], Henry Hebert [John Rodgers], Jack Ridgway (Jack Ridgeway) [the mission director], Henry West [Bill Avery], John Sturgeon [Blake]
World Film Corporation production; distributed by World Film Corporation [World Pictures]. / Scenario by Wallace C. Clifton (Wallace Clifton), from the novel To Him That Hath by Leroy Scott. Cinematography by Alec Neilson (Alex Nilson). Presented by World Film Corporation. / © 19 September 1918 by World Film Corporation [LU12883]. Released 23 September 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as The Supreme Sacrifice (1916).
Drama.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 28 September 1918, page ?] David Aldrich takes upon his own shoulders the thefts of a dead friend and is sent to prison for misappropriation of funds. At the end of a five year sentence he comes out of jail to start life anew. Even the woman who loved him thinks him guilty, and he is reduced to dire want before he finds the turn in the path that leads upward. In the end he wins back his fair name and literary fame as well, but only after a series of engrossing happenings that threaten to drive him still deeper into the underworld.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 6 November 2023.
References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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