Homer Comes Home

Homer Comes Home

"Just a poor dern fool Chuck full of hafalutin' plans, but couldn't hold a job a week. neighbors all 'lowed he'd never amount to a hill of beans. All but one- a girl. For her sake he went away. Then one day Homer came home!"

NR 1920 · 50 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy, Drama

Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.

Directed by Jerome Storm · Written by Alexander Hull

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Cast

Charles Ray Homer Cavender
Otto Hoffman Silas Prouty
Priscilla Bonner Rachel Prouty
John Elliott Mr. Bailly
Gus Leonard The Grocer
Joseph Hazelton The Shoe Store Man
Bert Woodruff Farmer Higgins
Louis Morrison Old Tracey
Mollie McConnell Dowager
Ralph McCullough Arthur Machim
Walter Higby Old Machim
Harry Hyde Mr. Kort

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