Widow Maloney's Faith (1913)

Widow Maloney lives with her son, Dan, who is her idol. He is in love with Mary O'Connor, as is also Mike Dooley. Mike's father owns a fleet of whalers, and Mike gives a dance in Sailors' Home, to which Dan and Mary are invited. The plan to pick a fight with Dan at the dance meets with disappointment for Mike Dooley and his friends, as Dan comes out victorious. Mike then bribes Dougherty, the saloonkeeper, to put chloral in Dan's whiskey and he and his friends shanghai Dan on one of the whalers which belong to Mike's father. The widow does not miss Dan, as she advised him after the fight to leave the country until the Dooleys cooled off. The whaler is wrecked and Dan in cast on a desert island, where he finds a large lump of ambergris. He is finally rescued by a passing ship. To obtain money he sells the ambergris to a firm of perfumers and receives a large sum. In the meantime the Dooleys demand the rent from Widow Maloney, and she not being able to pay, there is an auction. Dan arrives home in time to buy, through a lawyer, his mother's goods at the auction. One night Dan and his sailor friends seize Dooley and Dougherty and shanghai them on a boat which Dan has bought. Dan now makes himself known to his mother and Mary O'Connor.

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GenresDrama Short