Hells Highroad (1925)

Judy Nichols Leatrice Joy a poor girl from Chicago has decided she cannot marry without money Her sweetheart Ronald McKane a struggling civil engineer Edmund Burns is encouraging her to join him in New York but she only goes when she is bequeathed an inheritance Unfortunately the amount adds up to less than ten dollars a week When she meets banker Sanford Gillespie Robert Edeson she convinces him to help McKane out financially Once McKane has become a success Judy marries him but then he becomes interested in another woman Judy seeks revenge and asks Gillespie to ruin her estranged husband offering him anything he wants in return