A fur coat ruins a marriage, a man dies, and somehow the coat gets returned.
The marriage of Jim and Esther spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases a sable coat for herself. Hoping to live up to her expensive accessory, Esther soon is keeping company with caddish Morrell. Jim brings his wife's galavanting to an abrupt end by committing suicide. Esther as an object lesson for young Alice Kendall, returns the fur coat that she's bought on impulse.
Costume
That sable coat: the real protagonist and villain.
Acting
Silent-era face acting at maximum melodrama.
Director
Phil Rosen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The early 1920s saw a moral panic around 'extravagant' wives and consumer debt; this film is basically propaganda with intertitles.
The cast list in records is notoriously confused for this title—some sources swap character names entirely, making who's who a mini-mystery.
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