Ethel Wright

The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but unexpected and magical events occur inside The Enchanted Cottage where they have agreed to spend their wedding night.

Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won't work.

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.