After 18 years away, Lydia Bolton (Alice Joyce) returns to the town where her once-rich father (Marc McDermott) lost everything. With inheritance money from the uncle who raised her, she buys her father’s old estate and begins to pour money into the impoverished community.

An Alabaster Box

Adapted from: An Alabaster Box by Mary (Eleanor) Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley (1917)

Director: Chester Withey

Year: 1917

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Genre: Drama

Survival status: Lost