A hunchback fisherman finds a young girl tied to a mast, the sole survivor of a shipwreck, and raises her into womanhood with the intention of making her his wife. Ten years pass and the woman, out of gratitude, promises to marry him. The hunchback hires a handsome stranger, the boy. The boy and the girl fall in love, but the girl refuses to marry him. The hunchback sees the two embrace and threatens the boy with a knife. The next day, the three go fishing in the boat and an argument breaks out. During the argument the boat tips over and the girl is washed away. The hunchback and the boy search for her, until the boy becomes exhausted and collapses on the shore. The hunchback finds the girl on a rock and brings her ashore. As the two reunite, he sees how happy they are together and takes his leave.
Un ouvrier de lignes télégraphiques, père de famille nombreuse, éprouve des difficultés financières, à la suite d'un accident du travail. Un voleur de la haute société va tenter de lui venir en aide…
Après une lune de miel européenne, Edith (Billie Dove) retourne dans sa maison rurale en Géorgie et rencontre Jim Carter (Grant Withers), son amour d'enfance.
, 1h17 Réalisé parFred Niblo, James Anderson OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame, Policier ActeursRichard Dix, Marion Shilling, Jackie Cooper, Frank Sheridan, Boris Karloff, Dick Rush Note51% Jim Donovan (Richard Dix) is a two-bit mob leader in New York during the 1920s. When another mobster, Ben Murray (Richard Alexander) is killed in a gunfight between rival gangs, Donovan takes it upon himself to raise his son, Midge Murray (Jackie Cooper). When Donovan seeks the advice of the parish priest on how to raise an adolescent boy, the priest, Father Dan (Frank Sheridan), enlists the services of his niece, Kitty Costello (Marion Shilling). When she directs Donovan to get honest work, he agrees, and she gets him a job at the ironworks where she is also employed. He is slowly transformed by the effect that both Midge and Kitty have on him. He also falls in love with Kitty.