Public Domain Movies

The Primrose Path is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Harry O. Hoyt and starring Wallace MacDonald, Clara Bow and Arline Pretty.

Cast
Wallace MacDonald as Bruce Armstrong
Clara Bow as Marilyn Merrill
Arline Pretty as Helen
Stuart Holmes as Tom Canfield
Pat Moore as Jimmy Armstrong
Tom Santschi as Big Joe Snead
Lydia Knott as Mrs. Armstrong
Templar Saxe as Dude Talbot
Mike Donlin as Federal Officer Parker
Henry Hall as Court Officer
George Irving as Prosecutor John Morton

Plot
Bruce Armstrong, a young man with a history of drinking and gambling ills, agrees to be part of a diamond-smuggling operation in order to pay off his debts to Tom Canfield, a corrupt Broadway producer. Armstrong completes his task, but he kills another conspirator, Big Joe Snead, in a fight after the diamonds are taken by a third conspirator, Dude Talbot. Shortly before Armstrong is to die in the electric chair, Talbot confesses to the police that he had pilfered the diamonds, that Snead was a ruthless killer, and that Armstrong certainly killed Snead in self-defense.