Year: 1921
Runtime: 70 mins
Language: English
Director: Lois Weber
In Lois Weber’s comedy, inventor Frank (J. Frank Glendon) cycles through a series of wishes—first to create inventions, then to marry his childhood sweetheart Hallie (Claire Windsor), then to have children. Wealth from his inventions makes him restless, prompting an affair with a woman of dubious reputation, after which he realizes his mistake and longs to return to his wife.
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