During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.
June Elvidge
as Mrs. Maria Reynolds
Carlyle Blackwell
as Alexander Hamilton
Arthur Ashley
as Aaron Burr
Carl Gerard
as James Reynolds
Evelyn Greeley
as Margaret Moncrieffe
Lionel Belmore
as Gen. Israel Putnam
George MacQuarrie
as George Washington
Rose Tapley
as Martha Washington
Al Hart
as Thomas Jefferson
Alec B. Francis
as Gen. Philip Schuyler
Jack Drumier
as John Adams
Marguerite Gale
as Mrs. William Bingham
