The Millionaire's Double

The Millionaire's Double (1917) is a crime, drama film directed by Harry Davenport.

After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in Europe. After hearing of his wife's death years later, he returns home but finds it lonely there and heads West. While he is gone his house is robbed, and the leader of the crooks, Richard Glendo, leaves Bennington's coat and identification on an East River pier. The newspapers pick up on this and announce Bennington's "suicide." Since he is now officially deceased, Bennington decides to start life all over again -- but first he must foil a scheme by a gang of con artists, who have forced pretty Constance Brent to pose as Bennington's widow so that they can lay claim to his estate.

Cast

Lionel Barrymore

Bide Bennington

Evelyn Brent

Constance Brent

Harry Northrup

Richard Glendon

Louis Wolheim

Bob Holloway

H.H. Pattee

James Brent

John Smiley

Stevens

John Raymond

'Kid' Burns