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The Iron Ring (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

The Iron Ring (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

The great steel industry of Pittsburgh had been disturbed by a rumor of a merger of the Cambride Steel Plant and the Oldtown Tube Works. They decide to prevent this union by crippling the opposing industry by a strike. Stone, head of the ...See moreThe great steel industry of Pittsburgh had been disturbed by a rumor of a merger of the Cambride Steel Plant and the Oldtown Tube Works. They decide to prevent this union by crippling the opposing industry by a strike. Stone, head of the Graft Trust, calls Mark Gramble, head of the Labor Trust, "the man who creates strikes and then furnishes strikebreakers to end it." He instructs him not only to bring about a strike at the Oldtown Tube Works, but to destroy the plant. Robert Harding, the Youngstown lawyer, who came to New York to aid Bruce Larnigan, whose mind was shattered in his fight against the Trusts, realizes that his task is a physical battle rather than a legal one. Two attempts have been made on his life. Dorothy Maxwell, for the sake of Bruce Larnigan, to whom she was engaged, determines to place in Harding's hands her father's diary, containing the names of the remaining members of the Graft Trust, in spite of the fact that her father, one of the Larnigan victims, has become hopelessly paralyzed in his fight against Tom Larnigan. She visits Harding's office, which happens to adjoin that of Stanford Stone, carrying the diary with her. Stone has seen her enter and suspects her errand. Knowing that Harding is out, he follows her and accuses her of treachery to the Trust. She slips the diary in Harding's open desk and closes the top. Stone springs at her just as Harding enters. The latter escorts Dorothy to the door and afterwards forcibly ejects Stone. Harding dislikes and suspects Stone, and his selection of this particular office was for a purpose. After assuring himself that Stone has left the building, he bores a hole through the wall into Stone's office and attaches a dictaphone in the opening. A few hours later he hears Stone and Gramble discuss the probable success of their plan to wreck Youngstown. Harding dashes from the office and takes the first train west, his only thought being to save his city, where his influence is great. His hasty exit discloses to Stone the presence of the dictaphone. In fright he makes hurried preparations to flee from his office, never to return, as he knows Harding has found him out. Harding arrives at the Ohio town in the midst of the disorder and does much toward restoring normal conditions. The infuriated citizens are bent on lynching two of the paid labor agitators who have been arrested, but Harding holds the mob back. "Don't waste your anger on these hired thugs," he says, "I am going for the man higher up." As he speaks, he taps the diary Dorothy has left for him and which he thrust into his pocket just before his hasty departure. Stone, in his anger and defeat, determines to revenge himself on Dorothy. Masked and disguised, he gets into her bedroom, and with a knife raised above her to strike, is only prevented from accomplishing his purpose by the grandson of Dorothy's old nurse, Molly Kelly, in a most unusual way. Stone escapes. Harding returns to New York with the sheriff of Youngstown. They find Stone has disappeared, but promptly locate Gramble and place him under arrest. The confession of his frightened "agitators" make his conviction easy. Another member of the Graft Trust is eliminated. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Richard Stanton Robert Harding Robert Harding See fewer	Graft (1915)
Jane Novak Dorothy Maxwell Dorothy Maxwell See fewer	Colleen of the Pines (1922)
Glen White Stanford Stone Stanford Stone See fewer	Camille (1917)
Jack Abbott Jack Stevens Jack Stevens See fewer	Graft (1915)
Wadsworth Harris Mark Gamble Mark Gamble See fewer	Graft (1915)