Name: Defying Destiny
Director: Louis Chaudet
Released: 1923
Duration: 1 h 19 min
Cast: Monte Blue, Irene Rich, Tully Marshall, Jackie Saunders, Z. Wall Covington

About Defying Destiny

In Riverdale, Jack Fenton is scarred while saving Beth Alden. Her father, president of the bank, gives him a job. Jack becomes head teller, joins the country club, and plans to marry Beth. The rise makes enemies. He is accused of embezzlement and the town drops him. He leaves. A plastic surgeon later lets him come back unrecognized to settle the charge.

Cast & crew

More about Defying Destiny

Louis Chaudet directed. Lewis J. Selznick is the distributor named on Wikidata. Released September 29, 1923.

Themes

a scar from a rescue
a false embezzlement charge
a return under another face
Jack Fenton
Beth Alden
Riverdale
bank
plastic surgeon
Monte Blue

Preservation

A Commons transfer of the 1923 feature is online.

Notes

Monte Blue plays Jack Fenton. Irene Rich plays Beth Alden. James Gordon plays her father in the catalog synopsis.
Tully Marshall, Jackie Saunders, Z. Wall Covington, and Russell Simpson are in the catalog cast.

Scenes

Jack is burned or cut saving Beth, and her father offers the bank job.
He comes back after the operation so the town will not know him.