The Man Who Came Back

The Man Who Came Back

90 mins | Drama | Aug. 17, 1924

Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in the family shipyards and, to make a man out of him, he is told he will have to start at the bottom and work his way up. Henry decides this is not a good idea and resents it to the point he will indeed start at the bottom but will work his way down from there, and disgrace the family name in San Francisco.

The Man Who Came Back

90 mins | Drama | Aug. 17, 1924

The Man Who Came Back
Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in the family shipyards and, to make a man out of him, he is told he will have to start at the bottom and work his way up. Henry decides this is not a good idea and resents it to the point he will indeed start at the bottom but will work his way down from there, and disgrace the family name in San Francisco.
Producers Fox Film Corporation
Original title The Man Who Came Back
Directors Emmett J. Flynn
Writers John Fleming Wilson, Jules Eckert Goodman, Edmund Goulding

Cast

George O’Brien

as Henry Potter

Dorothy Mackaill

as Marcelle

Cyril Chadwick

as Captain Trevelan

Ralph Lewis

as Thomas Potter

Emily Fitzroy

as Aunt Isabel

Harvey Clark

as Charles Reisling

Edward Peil Sr.

as Sam Shu Sin

David Kirby

as Gibson

James Gordon

as Captain Gallon

Walter Wilkinson

as Henry Potter (at age 4)

Winston Miller

as Henry Potter (at age 12)