The Re-Creation of Brian Kent

Overview

To support a demanding wife, bank clerk Brian Kent embezzles a large sum of money and, overcome with remorse, attempts to commit suicide by casting himself adrift in a small boat on a rough river. The boat is caught in willows, however, and Brian meets Judy, a little maidservant who introduces him to her mistress, Auntie Sue, a schoolteacher. Under Auntie Sue's benign influence, Brian reforms and writes a book. Falling in love with Betty Jo, Brian incurs the enmity of Judy, who tells her father of Brian's unsavory past. Judy's father starts out for the bank, but Auntie Sue gets there first and persuades the bank president (a former pupil of hers) not to prosecute Brian. Brian's wife attempts to visit him and is drowned. Brian finds happiness with Betty Jo.

Cast

Kenneth Harlan

Brian Kent

Helene Chadwick

Betty Joe

Mary Carr

Auntie Sue

Zasu Pitts

Judy

Rosemary Theby

Mrs. Kent

T. Roy Barnes

Harry Green

Ralph Lewis

Homer Ward

Russell Simpson

Jap Taylor

DeWitt Jennings

Detective Ross

Russ Powell

Sheriff Knox