The read
It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a surveyor and has a son, David. Eben, distraught at losing her, goes away, and he returns years later to find that David, now an orphan, is running away from his cruel foster father, the squire. Eben befriends David, and when the town is destroyed by a storm the two escape harm. An epilog shows David 25 years later as a successful businessman, happily married, helping to rebuild the town.
Ratings
TMDB8/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Harry F. MillardeDirector
- Paul SloaneWriter
Cast
- Warren WilliamEben
- Jane ThomasBetty Biggs
- Harry BenhamHarry Adams
- Raymond BloomerDavid, as a man
- Nora Cecil(uncredited)
- Ben GrauerDavid, as a boy
- Edwin DenisonThe Squire
- Grace BartonHis Wife
- Nina CassavantDavid's Wife