The Brotherhood of Man (1912)
Billy Young, an athletic young bank clerk in love with Marion Wendell the president's daughter, and his young friend Jack Skyes, while walking home from work one night, accidentally encounter an old panhandler on the street corner. Billy is about to give the old man a dime when he recognizes in him his old athletic instructor. Billy bids his friend goodnight and proceeds to a nearby restaurant where he proceeds to treat his old trainer. The restaurant is of a low character and in the poor neighborhood. While eating, Marion Wendell and her friend, Kate Sommers, a mission worker, enter and distribute some tracts among the young girls who are drinking at the tables. The bouncer and waiter try to throw the "reformers" out into the street, but this is too much for Billy and old Reynolds. They make short work of the bouncer and waiter and safely escort the girls to the street, where they part. The two restaurant ruffians follow Billy and his friend and on a dark side street overtake them and after the fracas Billy comes to in a hospital. The old trainer has been removed to a cheap hotel with a bullet wound in his leg. He writes Billy and explains that unless he can get to a dry climate he will die. Billy has just had a call from Marion and her father and the doctor. They tell him he can leave the hospital and he immediately goes to see old Reynolds. He sees what urgent need the old trainer has for money and is heart-broken when he realizes his own penniless state. He cheers up his friend, however, with promises of assistance. While walking home that night his attention is arrested by a large lithograph in front of a coliseum offering five hundred dollars to anyone who will throw the wrestler Terrible Teddy. Billy goes inside, accepts the challenge and after an exciting contest, wins the prize. Needless to say he wins also the girl and his old trainer's gratitude.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Frank Beal | Director |
| William Duncan | Writer |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Duncan | |
| Kathlyn Williams | |
| Myrtle Stedman | |
| Walter Roberts |
