The Poor Folks' Boy (1914)
The great fear that they cannot keep up the interest on the mortgage on their little home and few acres of land has burdened the Bensons for years. Bradley, who holds the mortgage, is a brutal money-grabber and hounds the family continually. The father dies, leaving his widow Kate and their son Ben to keep up the interest. After sacrificing almost every cent they can scrape up, the boy comes home one day to find that Bradley has taken his dog. The brokenhearted lad goes to Bradley and demands his dog, but Bradley brutally refuses. That night the boy hears Bradley tell his mother she must apprentice Benny out to him and pay the interest through the boy's labor. Kate dares not refuse and Bradley gives her money to bind the bargain. The boy, realizing that a life with Bradley means cruelty and abuse, runs away. In the hills he finds his dog and thinks of his mother striving alone to keep up the interest on the mortgage and decides to go back. Bradley sees him, confronts Mrs. Benson, and demands the boy. Awakened at last to the true sense of protective motherhood, Kate seizes a rifle and when he starts for the loft where Benny is hiding, she convinces the rascal she will shoot him without the slightest compunction. He cringes and she, giving him back his money, orders him out Thoroughly aroused now, she says "This time we will run away together" and leaves the old farm to Bradley's greedy clutches. The dawn of a new day finds them driving over the hills, bravely facing the possibilities of the future.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Ulysses Davis | Director |
| C.W. Ogden | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Karl Formes | |
| Anne Schaefer | |
| Paul Willis | |
| George Stanley |
