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1931 | 81m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | William A. Seiter |
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| Writer: | Jane Murfin |
| Staring: |
| A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 13, 1931 |
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| Director: | William A. Seiter |
| Writer: | Jane Murfin |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | foster parents, chase, maine, rural area, foster child, pre-code, elopement, social outcast, child custody, spinster, barn dance, social gathering, unwed mother, farmhand, adoptive parent, out of wedlock child |
| Production Companies | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 07, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Phillips Lord | Seth Parker |
| Effie Palmer | Mrs. Parker |
| Frank Albertson | David Clark |
| Bette Davis | Mary Lucy Duffy |
| Frankie Darro | Robbie |
| Dorothy Peterson | Rose Clark |
| Stanley Fields | Rufe Turner |
| Oscar Apfel | Wobbling Duffy |
| Sophia M. Lord | Lizzie |
| Bennett Kilpack | Cephus |
| Raymond Hunter | Captain Bang |
| Wade Boteler | Income Tax Man (uncredited) |
| Frank Darien | Station Master (uncredited) |
| Lon Poff | Constable (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| William A. Seiter | Director |
| Jane Murfin | Story, Screenplay |
| Max Rée | Costume Design |
| J. Roy Hunt | Director of Photography |
| Sam Nelson | Assistant Director |
| Max Steiner | Original Music Composer |
| Hugh McDowell Jr. | Sound |
| Charles Burke | Assistant Camera |
| Eddie Pyle | Camera Operator |
| Gaston Longet | Still Photographer |
| Arthur Roberts | Editor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| William LeBaron | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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This has the look of a silent film to the production, and with a decent story and a solid effort from Phillips Lord, is actually quite watchable. He adopts the young "Robbie" (Frankie Darro) after his brute of a father goes AWOL. Together with his wife (Effie Palmer), they soon come to love the lad, ... but a neighbourly dispute prompts the return of "Rufe" (Stanley Fields) to reclaim his son - despite the protestations of just about everyone else? Meantime, the young man's friend "Mary Lucy" (Bette Davis) is having family troubles of her own as her father will not let her see her beau "David" (Frank Albertson). Can they navigate the difficulties ahead find happiness? Davis (more especially, her big eyes) features quite sparingly; the film really belongs to an engaging performance from Lord as the decent family man determined to do what is right. The production is very basic. The camera work isn't helped by the editing (or is it the other way round?) but some work has gone into the characterisations and the dialogue is sparse enough to let the imagery do most the work - culminating in quite an entertaining buggy chase with some fisticuffs! No, it's not a film you are ever likely to recall watching afterwards, but it is quite fun and offers us a glimpse of rural American life in the 1920s.