The Man Who Forgot is a lostThe Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Man Who Forgot 1917 silent film directed by Emile Chautard and starring Robert Warwick.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Man Who Forgot This movie is an adaptation of the book of the same name by James Hay.
Cast Robert Warwick - The Man (aka John Smith) Doris Kenyon - Edith Mallon Gerda Holmes - The Woman, (or Mary Leslie Alex Shannon - Al Simpson (*billed Alex K. Shannon) Ralph Delmore - Senator Mallon John Reinhardt - Charles Waller Frederick Truesdell - Congressman Mannersley (*as Frederick C. Truesdell)
Plot An opium addict living in China decides to return home to the United States, only to become addicted to alcohol. He decides to stop drinking after forgetting his past and realizing what he has become. He changes his name to John Smith and starts fighting against liquor interests., ...From the novel by James Hay, Jnr. In the depths; an opium den in Shanghai; remorse urges him to make his way back to America; A drunkard of the slums; Oblivion; five years after; A great reformer appears from nowhere and startles the nation with his plan to abolish drink...
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