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Watch Online / At the End of the World (1921)
Desc: At the End of the World: Directed by Penrhyn Stanlaws. With Betty Compson, Milton Sills, Casson Ferguson, Mitchell Lewis. Cherry O'Day is the daughter of Terence O'Day, who runs the Paper Lantern Café in Shanghai. She practices her father's philosophy to "play with men to her heart's content but always keep them at arm's length." Cherry has many suitors. She promises to marry a sailor named Donald MacGregor. But when he returns from the sea, he discovers Cherry's father has died. Cherry has married a rich man named William Blaine. A bank clerk named Harvel Allen tries to win Cherry's favor, but he is caught stealing bonds. Then Gordon Deane, a traveling novelist, meets Cherry but is the least interested of her suitors. Deane decides to take charge of a lighthouse on a lonely island, and brings MacGregor and Allen with him. Cherry gets a divorce and seeks Deane on the island. MacGregor and Allen engage in a fight at the top of the lighthouse, and both men plummet to their deaths. Cherry finds happiness with Deane.