Tony Vallenci, just over from Italy, is offered a job by Pietro Valli, an unscrupulous padrone. Ignorant of American money, Tony signs a contract calling for a wage of sixty cents a day. He goes to work in a quarry owned by Dodge. The following day Tony is knocked down by an auto containing Mrs. Dodge. He is uninjured, but the kind lady takes him to his home.
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Arthur Donaldson as The Padrone
Robert G. Vignola as Tony
Alice Hollister as Tony's Wife
Edgar L. Davenport as The Quarry Owner
Helen Lindroth as The Quarry Owner's Wife
United States 01 December 1913
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