The Gilded Highway

The Gilded Highway is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Dorothy Devore, John Harron, and Macklyn Arbuckle.

Plot
As described in a film magazine review, a rich uncle dies and leaves money to the Welby family. The results are disastrous. Young Jack Welby abandons Amabel, the young woman he is engaged to; his sister Primrose quits her fiance Hugo Blythe; and the whole family goes in for high living. In the end when they are broke, they come to their senses, but not before all family members experience considerable grief. A faithful former servant who runs their old home as a boarding house comes to their assistance. The lovers are reunited.

Cast

 * Dorothy Devore as Primrose Welby
 * John Harron as Jack Welby
 * Macklyn Arbuckle as Jonathan Welby
 * Myrna Loy as Inez Quartz
 * Florence Turner as Mrs. Welby
 * Sheldon Lewis as Uncle Nicholas Welby
 * Andrée Tourneur as Amabel
 * Gardner James as Hugo Blythe
 * Mathilde Comont as Sarah
 * Thomas R. Mills as Adolphus Faring

Preservation
With no prints of The Gilded Highway in any film archives, it is a lost film.