Bound on the Wheel (1915)

The Gertz family lives in a tenement room; below them live the Coulahans, a crude family. Tom Coulahan loves Cora Gertz, but she doesn't like his family. She finally agrees to marry him and moves in with his whole family. When Tom's father dies, Tom becomes a drunkard, and when his mother dies, all the household duties fall upon Cora. Hans, a friend from Germany, comes to look after Cora. Tom tries to rob him. Cora takes medicine to commit suicide. Tom bullies her to help him rob Hans, but Tom fills the glass with Cora's suicide potion and drinks it down. Cora and Hans are happily reunited.