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.

Genres

Cast

Richard Barthelmess

Youth

John Miltern

Experience

Marjorie Daw

Love

E.J. Ratcliffe

Ambition

Betty Carpenter

Hope

Kate Bruce

Mother

Lilyan Tashman

Pleasure

Joseph W. Smiley

Chance

Jed Prouty

Good Nature

Barney Furey

Poverty

Charles A. Stevenson

Wealth

Sibyl Carmen

Excitement