John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when in special favor, was expelled from a boarding school and sent to Lawrenceville Academy. On the stage on the way to the school he meets a silent man whom Dink sizes up for a salesman and he proceeds to wax eloquent on the subject of his past career and the reason he was expelled from his previous school.
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Jack Pickford as John Humperdink Stover
Louise Huff as Laura
Theodore Roberts as A Roman
Ben Suslow as White Mountain Canary
Milton Schumann as Caramel-Colored Angel
Maxfield Stanley as Doc MacNooder
Robert Gordon as Tennessee Shad
Edward Sedgwick as Butsey White
Tom Bates as Al
William Desmond Taylor Director
Owen Johnson Novel
Gardner Hunting Writer
Homer Scott Director of Photography
United States 05 August 1917
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22 October 1917
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16 April 1917
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