A Son of His Father (1913)
Gambler Will Temple leaves his wife Mary, alone most of the time with their baby son Harry. The night Mary can stand it no longer is the night Will is the heaviest winner. Will decides to leave his home and wife and go his way undisturbed. He leaves her a note that she will be well cared for, and encloses a message to be given to Harry when he comes of age. Will goes away and eventually becomes proprietor of a gambling joint out West. Harry grows to manhood and on the day of his majority learns from the note his father had left that there is $1,000 and interest awaiting him in the bank. Inadvertently his father has told him in the letter that it is his poker winnings, and the thing that his mother most fears comes to pass: a desire to gamble. Harry gets his money and very soon finds his way, despite his mother's pleadings, to the gambling table. At first he wins and he lies to his mother about what he is doing, but eventually he loses all and rather than face her he runs away West. He winds up in his father's gambling house and not knowing it is his son the father engages him. The son enters his father's employ unconscious of the fact that it is his father who has given him a helping hand. He becomes dealer through his wonderful and instinctive ability. Later he rescues a Western girl, Jennie, from the insults of a strange gambler and they become sweethearts. The stranger shows up again and in a game sitting opposite Harry, he falsely accuses the boy of cheating. Harry draws first and the gambler falls wounded. The father, thinking the boy wrong, starts with the others to get him, but he holds them all back. Escape is cut off, he sees Jennie coming and retires to the adjoining room. There the fight is kept up with the barricaded door between. The girl learns of the trouble and goes for the sheriff. In front of the saloon the sheriff finds that the gambler is a notorious crook, wanted by the authorities of many states and immediately goes to the rescue of Harry. When they burst into the room they find Harry has fainted from a wound and a scrawled note beside him tells only to advise his mother, Mary Temple, and then is cut short. On the reverse side, however, the father finds his own letter and realizes that he has sent his boy wrong. Later a reconciliation follows and the father puts up his joint for sale and both Harry and the girl go back with him. Back in the East the family is reunited and a daughter added.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Joseph W. Smiley | Director |
| George Terwilliger | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Clarence Elmer | |
| Justina Huff | |
| Joseph W. Smiley | |
| Carol Holloway |
