Experience 1921
"And Youth takes his fling! Drinks all the joy of life and finds- the dregs! Then stumbles, falls, sinks so deep that only Love can find him."
Overview
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast
Richard Barthelmess
Youth
John Miltern
Experience
Marjorie Daw
Love
E.J. Ratcliffe
Ambition
Betty Carpenter
Hope
Kate Bruce
Mother
Lilyan Tashman
Pleasure
R. Senoir
Opportunity
Joseph W. Smiley
Chance
Fred Hadley
Tout