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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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1924:
01 June 1924
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to some traveling gypsies, Mary shows up and tells them that her little sister just won a prize at the baby show.
21 February 1924
Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies.
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.
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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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A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.
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