The Plastic Age (1925) | Directed by Wesley Ruggles - Full Movie

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and his athletic training, and soon the two face some difficult decisions.

The Plastic Age is a 1925 black-and-white silent film, starring Clara Bow, Donald Keith, and Gilbert Roland. The film was based on a best-selling novel from 1924 of the same name, written by Percy Marks, a Brown University English instructor who chronicled the life of the fast-set of that university and used the fictitious Sanford College as a backdrop. The Plastic Age is known to most silent film fans as the very first hit of Clara Bow's career, and helped jumpstart her fast rise to stardom. Frederica Sagor Maas and Eve Unsell adapted the book for the screen.

Directed by: Wesley Ruggles
Screenplay by: Frederica Sagor, Eve Unsell
Based on: The Plastic Age by, Percy Marks
Produced by: B.P. Schulberg
Starring: Clara Bow, Donald Keith, Gilbert Roland, Mary Alden, Clark Gable
Cinematography: Allen G. Siegler, Gilbert Warrenton
Distributed by: Preferred Pictures
Release date: December 15, 1925 (U.S.), July 18, 1926 (New York City), April 23, 1928 (Finland)
Running time: 73 minutes
Country: United States
Languages: Silent film, English intertitles