Smoldering Embers

Smoldering Embers

1920 · 50 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama

When John Conroy's wife takes his infant son Jack and runs away with another man, Conroy becomes a tramp and goes to Alaska. Fifteen years later, he returns and learns that his son Jack is being coerced into marrying Edith Wyatt, the daughter of a congressman, in order to further the political ambitions of his stepfather, Mayor Horace Manners. Conroy makes friends with the boy, who is unaware that the congenial tramp is actually his father. Jack loves cobbler's daughter Beth Stafford, and when Conroy discovers that Manners plans to frame Jack for the loss of city funds and thus scare him into marriage with Edith, he intercedes and insures that his son receives both his rightful inheritance and the woman whom he loves. After securing the boy's happiness, Conroy slips away without revealing his true identity to his son.

Directed by Frank Keenan · Written by Kate Corbaley

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Frank Keenan John Conroy
Jay Belasco Jack Manners
Katherine Van Buren Beth Stafford
Russ Powell Tramp
Graham Pettie Tramp
Hardee Kirkland Horace Manners
Lucille Ward Annie Manners
Frances Raymond Edith Wyatt
Tom Guise Congressman Wyatt
Burwell Hamrick The Boy

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