Experience
And Youth takes his fling! Drinks all the joy of life and finds- the dregs! Then stumbles, falls, sinks so deep that only Love can find him.
Director George Fitzmaurice
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.
Cast
Betty Carpenter
Hope
Kate Bruce
Mother
Louis Wolheim
Crime
Barney Furey
Poverty
Richard Barthelmess
Youth
E.J. Ratcliffe
Ambition
Reginald Denny
Marjorie Daw
Love
Jed Prouty
Good Nature
Leslie King
Gloom
Nita Naldi
Temptation
Leslie Banks
John Miltern
Experience
Robert Schable
Conceit
Lilyan Tashman
Pleasure
Helen Ray
Intoxication
Charles A. Stevenson
Wealth
Joseph W. Smiley
Chance
Sibyl Carmen
Excitement