The Flame of Youth

The Flame of Youth

50 mins | Drama, Adventure | June 18, 1917

James Gordon, Sr., owner of the Gordon syndicate, dispatches his roughneck son Jimmy to investigate why production has fallen off in his opal mine on an island off the coast of lower California. After an argument with his fiancée, socialite Lucy Andrews, Jimmy leaves for the island where he is met by Juan, McCool's servant who, along with Jasper Sneedham, has been cheating the company. On the launch, Juan tries to eliminate Jimmy by hitting him over the head, but the lad escapes and swims to shore where he is rescued by Sneedham's stepdaughter Nadine. Nadine takes Jimmy to the hut of mine foreman Fred Haimer, the only honest man on the island.

The Flame of Youth

50 mins | Drama, Adventure | June 18, 1917

The Flame of Youth
James Gordon, Sr., owner of the Gordon syndicate, dispatches his roughneck son Jimmy to investigate why production has fallen off in his opal mine on an island off the coast of lower California. After an argument with his fiancée, socialite Lucy Andrews, Jimmy leaves for the island where he is met by Juan, McCool's servant who, along with Jasper Sneedham, has been cheating the company. On the launch, Juan tries to eliminate Jimmy by hitting him over the head, but the lad escapes and swims to shore where he is rescued by Sneedham's stepdaughter Nadine. Nadine takes Jimmy to the hut of mine foreman Fred Haimer, the only honest man on the island.
Producers Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Original title The Flame of Youth
Directors Elmer Clifton
Writers Karl R. Coolidge, Walter Woods, F. McGrew Willis

Cast

Jack Mulhall

as Jimmy Gordon

Ann Forrest

as Lucy Andrews

Donna Drew

as Nadine

Hayward Mack

as Sir Beverly Wyndham

Alfred Allen

as Jasper Sneedham

Ed Brady

as McCool

Fred Montague

as James Gordon Sr.

Burton Law

as Beppo

Percy Challenger

as Fred Haimer

Harry Mann

as Bennie Zussbaum

Harry Morris

as Juan