A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzageās last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearstās Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar HervĆ© Dumont to declare āit the first truly Borzagian work.ā
1923-03-18