A Million to Burn (1923)

9.0/10 • 50 min • Comedy

Overview

The owner of a resort hotel promotes Tom Gwynne, a college boy working as a waiter, to manager. As a result of his mismanagement, the hotel loses several thousand dollars. Tom inherits a million and buys the hotel to continue his experimental management, which is to give the employees time and opportunity for self-expression--to do what they like best to do.

Cast

Herbert Rawlinson

Thomas Gwynne

Kalla Pasha

Nickoli Rubnov

Beatrice Burnham

Daisy Jones

Tom McGuire

P.D. Riley

Melbourne MacDowell

Mark Mills

Margaret Landis

Sybil Mills

George F. Marion

Old Ben Marlowe

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