The Broken Gate

The Broken Gate

Drama | Dec. 1, 1920

Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from her millinery shop, she has sent him away to be educated. When Don, her son (Arnold Gregg), returns from college, he finds he has to defend his mother constantly. He is accused of murdering a man who made a snide remark about Aurora and is put on trial.

The Broken Gate

Drama | Dec. 1, 1920

The Broken Gate
Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from her millinery shop, she has sent him away to be educated. When Don, her son (Arnold Gregg), returns from college, he finds he has to defend his mother constantly. He is accused of murdering a man who made a snide remark about Aurora and is put on trial.
Producers J.L. Frothingham Productions
Original title The Broken Gate
Directors Paul Scardon
Writers Emerson Hough

Cast

Bessie Barriscale

as Aurora Lane

Joseph Kilgour

as William Henderson

Sam De Grasse

as 'Hod' Brooks

Marguerite De La Motte

as Anne Oglesby

Arnold Gray

as Dieudonne 'Don' Lane (as Arnold Gregg)

Lloyd Bacon

as John

Evelyn Selbie

as Julia Delafield

Alfred Allen

as Eph Adamson