Her Boy (1913)
Jim Davis has been so accustomed to maltreating his wife that she is driven to leave him, taking with her their young son. Years afterward the boy, grown up, goes west and stakes a mining claim which proves rich. He sends for his mother to come and share his fortune. While she is on the way, "lookouts" employed by a gambling palace, hear that the young man has cashed in a large amount of ore from his claim and plot to victimize him. They take the proprietor of the joint into their scheme and he agrees to help. The three men inveigle the young man into a stiff poker game in a private room on the night his mother is to arrive in town. Meanwhile, Tom Saunders, a citizen of the town and friend of the boy's, has been gratifying his passion for gambling, and his daughter in going to the gambling hall overhears the gamblers tell of their plot to defraud the boy. She gets her father outside the place and tells him what she has learned. He returns inside and forces himself into the poker game for the purpose of protecting the boy, but finally sees that it is hopeless. Returning home to tell his daughter of his failure he finds the mother there. He tells her where her boy is. The two women wait in the outside hallway while Saunders goes to the door of the anteroom and asks to speak to the boy outside. The proprietor answers the knock and abuses Saunders, telling him not to interrupt the game. The boy has just pledged his claim as the stake in a pot where the cards have been stacked against him. In the hallway the mother hears the argument between Saunders and the proprietor and recognizes the voice. She goes to the door and confronts the gambler, who recognizes her instantly as his wife. She tells him that he is plotting to ruin his own son. Without a word he steps back into the room, throws all the money on the table into a valise, puts it into the boy's hands and pushes him into the hall. The gamblers attempt to follow the boy and take the money, but the father stands with his back to the door, draws a pistol and shoots out the light. In the darkness two shots flash. When a match is lighted its glare shows the upturned face of the proprietor stretched dead across the table.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Wilbert Melville | Director |
| Wilbert Melville | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Ray Gallagher | |
| Joseph De Grasse | |
| Velma Whitman |
