Coming Through

1925 film

February 15, 1925 (1925-02-15)

Running time

70 mins.
7 reels (6,522 feet)CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Coming Through is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by A. Edward Sutherland starring Thomas Meighan and Lila Lee. Based on Jack Bethea's novel Bed Rock, the film was Sutherland's directorial debut.^[1]

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[2] Tom Blackford (Meighan) is counting on a promised promotion that will allow him to marry Alice (Lee), the daughter of his employer John Rand (Miltern). When the appointment goes to Rand's nephew, Tom marries Alice anyway, to the distress of her father, and cunningly turns against him his incautious remark that the road to advancement runs through relationships. He offers Tom the position of superintendent of one of the company's mines. Rand then writes to Joe Lawler (Beery), who had expected to receive that appointment, that the company will make him superintendent if Blackford quits, intimating that he does not care what means are taken to induce this. Alice goes with her husband, though she declares that she does not love him, and they set up a platonic honeymoon. Lawler, working with Shackleton (Campeau), the keeper of the local speakeasy, stirs up trouble at the mine, finally causing a strike. Tom abolishes the dive after a drunken engineer nearly kills some of the mine workers. He turns the tables against Lawler by showing that he cheated the workers with crooked scales. In a fight on the coal tipple, Lawler is thrown from the structure when the iron bar he is swinging at Tom is caught in the machinery. With the strike over, Tom returns home to find that Alice is ready to admit her love.

Cast

Thomas Meighan as Tom Blackford
Lila Lee as Alice Rand
John Miltern as John Rand
Wallace Beery as Joe Lawler
Larry Wheat as Munds (credited as Laurance Wheat)
Frank Campeau as Shackleton
Gus Weinberg as Dr. Rawls
Alice Knowland as Mrs. Rawls

Preservation

With no prints of Coming Through located in any film archives,^[3] it is a lost film.^[4]

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: Coming Through at silentera.com. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
^ Sargent, Epes W. (February 21, 1925). "Coming Through; Thomas Meighan Fares Better in his Newest Paramount Film Than in Some Recent Plays". The Moving Picture World. 72 (8). New York City, NY: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 788. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Coming Through Library of Congress Retrieved November 18, 2022.
^ Coming Through at Lost Film Files: Paramount Pictures: 1925 Retrieved November 18, 2022.