The Barricade

Genre: Drama
Run time: 50 min
Premiere: 1917. March 5.

Director: Edwin Carewe
Writer: Hamilton Smith June Mathis
Starring: Mabel Taliaferro Frank Currier Clifford Bruce Robert Rendel

Debutante Hope Merrill (Mabel Taliaferro) returns home one day to find her financier father Amos Merrill (Frank Currier) on the verge of committing suicide. Rather than reveal the truth -- that he has misappropriated funds from his own company -- Merrill claims that he has been ruined by young John Cook (Clifford Bruce), Hope's sweetheart.