The Shanghaied Baby (1915)
Jackie, Gordon and Leila Lambert's little son, is neglected by his parents. Various sports occupy the father's attention; left to herself, the mother spends her time playing bridge and amusing herself with many male admirers. One of them is John Manning, once a favorite, but his popularity is waning. During one evening party, Leila comes to a temporary realization of her life's hollowness and goes to the piano and sings "The Slumber Boat." Upstairs, Jackie hears the song and creeps down to listen, then steals out to the summer house and falls asleep. Manning, dismissed by Leila, angrily finds the sleeping boy. He determines to bring Leila to a realization of her errors and takes the boy to his home, intending to return him within a few days, after his mother realizes what his loss would mean. But Joe, "The Eel," enters his apartment intent on burglary; recognizing little Jackie, he abducts him, anticipating a ransom. Dressing him as a Chinese child, he hides him in a cellar in the Chinese quarter. Captain Brent, of a tramp steamer, rescues the boy after a fight with his Chinese captors, and puts to sea with him. "Joe, the Eel," is arrested and when he confesses to his part of the abduction, Manning goes to the waterfront where he searches for the lost boy, and thus makes amends. In time his strength fails him and he dies, forgiven by Leila and her husband. Fifteen years later, Jackie--Jack--whom Brent adopted, is living on a tropical island where Brent dies, leaving the young man the ring that was found on his finger when he was a child. Jack leaves the island and goes to San Francisco and joins the Navy as a seaman. To his shop comes Isobel Gregg, a wealthy girl who has become interested in kindergarten work in the slums. When Isobel and Jack meet, they know that their hearts are one. But Isobel's mother puts her foot down upon the romance between her daughter and the sailor, and Isobel meets Jack only at the home of her friend Leila--Jack's mother. When Leila, strangely stirred by the bronzed young man, sings again the old song "The Slumber Boat" a memory awakens in Jack's heart. The little ring brings proof of Jack's identity, and with the happiness of regaining the son and gaining a daughter, life begins anew for Leila and her husband.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| George Terwilliger | Director |
| Robert A. Sanborn | Writer |
| George Terwilliger | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Edgar Jones | |
| Ormi Hawley | |
| Kempton Greene | |
| Jack McCloskey |
