Film

The Law of Compensation

3.719171h 12mDrama

Director: Julius Steger
Year: 1917

A young wife, tempted to leave her husband for a song plugger who promises he'll make her a Broadway star, is told her father's life story and of the choices her mother made before her tragic death.

Top cast

Norma Talmadge

Flora Graham / Ruth Graham

Fred Esmelton

John Graham (as Frederick Esmelton)

Chester Barnett

Allen Hayes

John Charles

Frank Trevor

Sally Crute

Grace Benton

Fred Hearn

Henry Thurman (as Fred G. Hearn)

Mary Hall

Mrs. Wayne

Edwin Stanley

Raymond Wells

Robert Cummings

Horace Benton

Directed by

Julius Steger, Joseph A. Golden

Written by

Wilson Mizner

Produced by

Joseph M. Schenck