20 September 1924 Drama, Action 60 mins
A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.
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Harry Carey as Big Bill Benson
Frankie Darro as Little Bill
Edith Roberts as Nora Burke
Wallace MacDonald as Malcolm Gregory
Frank Hagney as Red Burley
Duke R. Lee as John McFarlane
Tom Forman Director
Hunt Stromberg Writer
Doris Dorn Writer
Sol Polito Director of Photography
Edward Withers Art Direction
United States 20 September 1924
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20 January 1924
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie.
15 November 1924
Grace Ainsworth wants to return to her career as an opera singer, and her mother-in-law supports her.
24 February 1924
When old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to trusted foreman Tom Taylor as promised.
10 February 1924
Two sisters, Julia Crossland and Evelyn Jefferson, happy lives are thrown into turmoil when a man from their past, Thomas Chadwick reappears unexpectedly.
13 April 1924
A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.
01 December 1924
Ruth Rogens (Sylvia Breamer) is married to policeman John Rogens (Jack Mower), whose work causes him to neglect her.
30 September 1924
A champion golfer falls for a beautiful woman, only to find that her heart lies with one of 'the Cultured', a poet and a member of the literary and debating society.
04 February 1924
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
14 September 1924
Industrialist James Sheridan, Sr., once a laborer, insists on moulding the careers of his three sons; however, he loses James, Jr.
01 January 1924
A round-up of free events in London, including street entertainers, a puppet show, pavement artists, road menders, a daring demonstration by the fire brigade, an abduction staged by a film company and a military parade.
01 April 1924
A Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.
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