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11/13/19311h 21m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Idol of 10,000,000 Radio Fans...NOW ON THE SCREEN! In a Teeming, Action-Packed Melodrama of Human Emotions! ~

Overview:

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

Director:

William A. Seiter

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

chase
foster parents
maine
rural area
foster child
pre-code
elopement
social outcast
child custody
spinster
barn dance
social gathering
unwed mother
farmhand
adoptive parent
out of wedlock child

Cast

Phillips Lord

~ as ~

Seth Parker

Effie Palmer

~ as ~

Mrs. Parker

Frank Albertson

~ as ~

David Clark

Bette Davis

~ as ~

Mary Lucy Duffy

Frankie Darro

~ as ~

Robbie

Dorothy Peterson

~ as ~

Rose Clark

Stanley Fields

~ as ~

Rufe Turner

Oscar Apfel

~ as ~

Wobbling Duffy

Sophia M. Lord

~ as ~

Lizzie

Bennett Kilpack

~ as ~

Cephus

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
This has the look of a silent film to the production, and with a decent story and a solid effort from Phillips Lord, is actually quite watchable. He adopts the young "Robbie" (Frankie Darro) after his brute of a father goes AWOL. Together with his wife (Effie Palmer), they soon come to love the lad, but a neighbourly dispute prompts the return of "Rufe" (Stanley Fields) to reclaim his son - despite the protestations of just about everyone else? Meantime, the young man's friend "Mary Lucy" (Bette Davis) is having family troubles of her own as her father will not let her see her beau "David" (Frank Albertson). Can they navigate the difficulties ahead find happiness? Davis (more especially, her big eyes) features quite sparingly; the film really belongs to an engaging performance from Lord as the decent family man determined to do what is right. The production is very basic. The camera work isn't helped by the editing (or is it the other way round?) but some work has gone into the characterisations and the dialogue is sparse enough to let the imagery do most the work - culminating in quite an entertaining buggy chase with some fisticuffs! No, it's not a film you are ever likely to recall watching afterwards, but it is quite fun and offers us a glimpse of rural American life in the 1920s.