A Nine O'Clock Town is a 1918 American comedy silent film written and directed by Victor Schertzinger. The film stars Charles Ray, Jane Novak, Otto Hoffman, Gertrude Claire, Catherine Young and Dorcas Matthews. The film was released on July 28, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.
As described in a film magazine, Matthew Denton (Ray) finds out that, because the Centipede oil wells do not pay a dividend, the villagers consider his father to be a swindler. He leaves his mother and New England home to go to Centipede, Texas, to ascertain the cause of the shortage of oil. He becomes an employee under the direction of Banty Jones (Elmer), foreman of the wells, and a crook. He falls in love with Mabel Glenny (May), whom Jones considers to be his "gal." When Mabel shows Matthew her engagement ring, Jones gives him a specified amount of time to get out of town. However, Matthew has found a valve that causes oil to be diverted to another company. He also learns that Jones is receiving the benefit from these stolen oil sales. A fight breaks out between the two men with Matthew the winner. Jones, humiliated, leaves, and Mabel is proud of Matthew. Back home the villagers are happy that the oil wells are safe and that dividends will be forthcoming again.
Lorsque son père Jimmy Ashe décide de lui confier la direction de l'usine, Jimmy Jr. hésite mais finit par accepter. Il va se retrouver aux prises avec Moran, un homme d'affaires corrompu, mais il va aussi trouver l'amour...
Réalisé parVictor Schertzinger GenresComédie dramatique ActeursCharles Ray, Charles K. French, Margery Wilson, Lydia Knott Note64% Isaac Nelson (French) is the tight-fisted president of a country bank and owns a farm, where his son Everett (Ray) works long hours every day, even on Sundays. Everett wears his father's cast-off clothes, and after his mother (Knott) buys him a mail order suit, Everett goes to a Fourth of July picnic. The father sees his wife doing on the farm doing the son's work and then trashes the son. Everett Nelson run off to the big city and gets a job as a janitor at a theater. There he meets a showman who puts him in a cabaret as a country dancer doing the "clodhopper slide," making $200 a week. Back in his hometown, rumors start to spread about Everett, creating a run on Mr. Nelson's bank. Everett's girlfriend, Mary Martin (Wilson), goes to New York to ask him for help and sways him to return home. Everett saves the bank and he and Mary get married.