Turn To The Right
''Turn To The Right'' is an extant 1922 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Rex Ingram and starring Alice Terry. The film is based on a 1916 Broadway play ''Turn to the Right'' by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard. Plot As described in a film magazine, Joe Bascom (Mulhall), the only son of a poor widow (Knott) in a Connecticut village, is in love with Elsie Tillinger (Terry), daughter of Deacon Tillinger (Connelly), the town's richest and meanest man. The deacon has more ambitious plans for his daughter and Joe, discouraged, leaves home determined to make his way life and return and marry Elsie. She promises to wait for him and together they plan their "dream house." In the city Joe falls in with the race track crowd and finally finds employment with Mr. Morgan (Mayne), a wealthy race horse owner. Joe sends money home frequently and then writes that he has saved $2,000 and will be coming home. Seeing a chance for a final "killing," he wagers the $2,000 on the horses a ...
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Rex Ingram (director)
Rex Ingram (born Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock, 15 January 1892 – 21 July 1950) was an Irish film director, producer, writer, and actor. Director Erich von Stroheim once called him "the world's greatest director".Soares, André. ''Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro'', New York: Macmillan, 2002, p. 27; Early life Born in 58 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland, (where a plaque commemorates his birth), Ingram was educated at Saint Columba's College, near Rathfarnham, County Dublin. He spent much of his adolescence living in the Old Rectory, Kinnitty, Birr, County Offaly, where his father, Reverend Francis Hitchcock, was the Church of Ireland rector. Ingram emigrated to the United States in 1911. His brother Francis joined the British Army and fought during World War I, during which he was awarded the Military Cross. Career Ingram studied sculpture at the Yale University School of Art, where he contributed to campus humour magazine ''The Yale Record'' ...
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