What are the key story phases in Tearing Through?

The story of Tearing Through progresses through these phases: The Discovery, The Infiltration, The Confrontation.

How does Tearing Through end?

In the final act ("The Confrontation"): Jones faces Greer directly, rescues Constance, and exposes the corrupt District Attorney.

Tearing Through (1925) — AI Story Visualization

Name: Tearing Through
Genre: action, crime, drama
Released: 1925
Rating: 8

Plot Analysis Summary

A reformer's assistant exposes a drug ring that has affected his family

Story Structure — 3 Plot Phases

The Discovery

The Infiltration

The Confrontation

Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.

Directed by

Arthur Rosson

Key Cast

Richard Talmadge — Richard Jones
Kathryn McGuire — Constance Madison
Herbert Prior — District Attorney
Frank Elliott — Mr. Greer
Arthur Rankin — Bob Madison

Rating: 8/10 (1 votes)