Sorrell and Son
Would you give your strength year after year---fight hardship and failure---and finally give your life---that your son might live and love!
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Directed by Herbert Brenon · Written by Herbert Brenon
Cast
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H.B. Warner Stephen Sorrell -
Anna Q. Nilsson Dora Sorrell -
Mickey McBan Kit, as a child -
Mickey McBan Flo Palfrey -
Lionel Belmore John Palfrey -
Carmel Myers Flo Palfrey -
Norman Trevor Thomas Roland -
Betsy Ann Hisle Molly, as a child -
Louis Wolheim Buck -
Paul McAllister Dr. Orange -
Alice Joyce Fanny Garland -
Nils Asther Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell
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