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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13 April 1924
It's raining heavily, but at first the young husband and wife are not concerned about it. But the husband gets soaked on the way home from work, and then finds that the butler has left all of his suits hanging outside in the rain.
01 December 1924
Ruth Rogens (Sylvia Breamer) is married to policeman John Rogens (Jack Mower), whose work causes him to neglect her.
29 March 1924
The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.
31 August 1924
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit.
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.
20 April 1924
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her.
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This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
21 August 1924
Fred Holme is looking for candidates for the beauty contest in his London newspaper. In Rome he discovered the most beautiful woman in the world, the young arts and craftswoman Lucia Sarlo.
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After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den.
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Two sisters, Julia Crossland and Evelyn Jefferson, happy lives are thrown into turmoil when a man from their past, Thomas Chadwick reappears unexpectedly.
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