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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Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris.
04 February 1924
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
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After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis.
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