Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number of bizarre inventions and he dreams of harnessing the nearby falls for power, but he can't get any financing from the town banker.
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Jack Pickford as Jack Joyce
Norma Shearer as Mary Ellen Hope
Claire McDowell as Mrs. Joyce
Alec B. Francis as Abner Hope
Herbert Prior as Curt Horndyke
Ann May as Helen Horndyke
George Dromgold as Joe Lakin
Jack Edwards as Little Boy (uncredited)
James Cruze Director
Frank Condon Story
James Cruze Story
Arthur Edeson Director of Photography
Paul P. Perry Director of Photography
United States 14 April 1925
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1925:
30 August 1925
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22 December 1925
Jus' travlin', Bob and his sidekick run into the outlaw Jean Le Roque. A miner has found gold and Le Roque not only wants the gold but also the miner's daughter.
13 December 1925
Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
15 November 1925
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city.
24 August 1925
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
29 August 1925
Farmer Al Falfa's car comes to life and sprays oil on his window before driving away. Al Falfa now needs a window washer.
12 January 1925
After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that she has become a social outcast, owing to the public revelation that the oriental nurse who raised her was actually her mother.
28 September 1925
Handsome action star Reed Howes, the former "Arrow Collar Man," starred in this low-budget silent melodrama as an adventuresome Yankee who saves the duly elected president of a South American republic from being overthrown by his unscrupulous secretary.
16 May 1925
As youths, Carl Pfeiffer and Henry Block came to America from Germany. Pfeiffer became a wholesale shoe dealer, while Block became a banker.
23 May 1925
Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman.
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