The Bosun's Mate is a 1914 British silent comedy film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Mary Brough, Charles Rock and Wyndham Guise. It is an adaptation of a play by W. W. Jacobs.
Captain Fairweather has deposit money with the banker Gideon Bloodgood. After learning that Bloodgood's bank is shaky, Fariweath tries to retrieve the money and dies in an argument with the banker. Bloodgood keeps the money but his clerk, Badger, finds out about it. Years later he blackmails his old boss with proof of the murder.
Réalisé parJ. Walter Ruben OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame ThèmesAdaptation d'une pièce de théâtre ActeursDouglas Fairbanks, Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Colleen Moore, Frank Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, Nydia Westman Note63% Joe, an amoral capitalist and boyfriend of Sarah Griswold, gets a job as a clerk in a New York City advertising agency and starts to work his way to the top. He is fired, but Sarah intervenes on his behalf and he manages to create an ad that earns him a promotion. He meets the mistress of his boss and decides he wants to win her from him. The company is in trouble, but Joe has invested wisely and sells out his boss to his competitor. He abandons Sarah and proposes to the mistress, who marries him. Joe becomes head of his agency, but because he neglects his new wife, she becomes the mistress of another man. He attempts suicide, but Sarah rescues him and nurses him back to health.
Réalisé parLesley Selander, Gregory La Cava OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame, Comédie, Comédie romantique ThèmesPolitique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre ActeursHelen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Dudley Digges, Lucile Watson, Donald Crisp Note65% Alick Wylie (David Torrence) and his sons David (Donald Crisp) and James (Dudley Digges) are greatly concerned about Alick's daughter Maggie (Helen Hayes), who has been jilted by a minister. She is less than heartbroken, but they fear for her marital prospects at the age of 27. When they catch poor but ambitious 21-year-old John Shand (Brian Ahern) breaking into their house late at night to use their library, they seize the opportunity. Impressed by his initiative, they offer him £300 to finance his studies provided that he give Maggie the option of marrying him after five years. After some thought, he agrees. The Wylies insist he sign a formal contract.