The Volcano

The Volcano

1919•50m•10.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

10.0/10(1)

Ruth Carroll, a schoolteacher in New York's Lower East Side, meets Bolshevist Alexis Minski at her grandfather's bookstore. After Ruth complains to her superintendent about undernourished schoolchildren, Minski's ravings cause her suspension, and she joins the Reds. Meanwhile, Captain Nathan Levison, returning from the Argonne, is assigned by the Secret Service to investigate New York's radicals. While visiting the Carrolls to announce the imminent arrival of Ruth's brother Davy, who saved Levison's life but lost his foot, Levison falls in love with Ruth. Chagrined, Minski convinces Ruth that Levison plans to arrest her and her grandfather, whereupon Ruth furiously requests that Levison be killed. After Governor Alfred E. Smith signs a bill making it illegal to display the Red flag, the Bolshevists plot to assassinate him, the Mayor of Seattle, and Attorney General Alexander Palmer, but Davy, with other soldiers, break up the meeting.

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Production

Harry Raver Inc., Artco Productions Inc.

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Available in Your Library

Cast

Leah Baird

Leah Baird

Ruth Carroll

Edward Langford

Captain Nathan Levinson

W.H. Gibson

Davy Carroll

Jacob Kingsbury

Alexis Minski

Harry Bartlett

Grandpa Carroll

William Frederic

Michael

Mlle. Elaine Amazar

Olga Petrovitch

Becky Bruce

Mrs. Van Leide

Alfred E. Smith

Self

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