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Virtuous Men
When Bob Stokes, a wealthy New York clubman, loses his fortune, he is jilted by his fiancée Marcia Fontaine. He then wanders to an upstate lumber camp where he impresses the owner, Henry Willard, with his leadership and fighting abilities. After Stokes quells a strike engineered by the previous foreman, Robert Brummon, who is really a Bolshevik agitator, to prevent shipments of lumber for government contracts, Brummon, seeking revenge, sets the forest on fire, but Stokes controls it. Willard then sends for Stokes to oversee his New York shipyards where a government "mystery ship" is under construction. After Stokes and Willard's daughter Helen fall in love, Brummon gets Marcia to attempt to seduce Stokes. Marcia lures Stokes to her apartment, where Brummon plans to kill him, but he escapes when he learns that a time bomb is set to destroy the ship.
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As a silent film from 1919, specific plot details for "Virtuous Men" are not widely available or preserved. Silent films of this era often explored themes of morality, social issues, and personal struggles, typically through dramatic narratives and character-driven stories.
Critical Reception
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Many silent films from this period have been lost to time due to nitrate film decomposition and lack of preservation efforts, making "Virtuous Men" potentially one of many cinematic works that are no longer accessible to the public.
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