The Primrose Path (1925 film)

The Primrose Path is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Harry O. Hoyt and starring Wallace MacDonald, Clara Bow and Arline Pretty.

Cast

 * Wallace MacDonald as Bruce Armstrong
 * Clara Bow as Marilyn Merrill
 * Arline Pretty as Helen
 * Stuart Holmes as Tom Canfield
 * Pat Moore as Jimmy Armstrong
 * Tom Santschi as Big Joe Snead
 * Lydia Knott as Mrs. Armstrong
 * Templar Saxe as Dude Talbot
 * Mike Donlin as Federal Officer Parker
 * Henry Hall as Court Officer
 * George Irving as Prosecutor John Morton

Plot
Bruce Armstrong, a young man with a history of drinking and gambling ills, agrees to be part of a diamond-smuggling operation in order to pay off his debts to Tom Canfield, a corrupt Broadway producer. Armstrong completes his task, but he kills another conspirator, Big Joe Snead, in a fight after the diamonds are taken by a third conspirator, Dude Talbot. Shortly before Armstrong is to die in the electric chair, Talbot confesses to the police that he had pilfered the diamonds, that Snead was a ruthless killer, and that Armstrong certainly killed Snead in self-defense.

Preservation
Complete prints of The Primrose Path are held by the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique in Brussels, the  BFI in London, the George Eastman Museum in  Rochester and the UCLA Film and Television Archive in Los Angeles.