Experience (1921)
Overview
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
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
Robert Schable
Conceit