Silent, directed by John Ford. A child hobo (Georgie Stone) is pulled off a train and roughed up by a railroad employee. I don't think a child should be climbing around between boxcars on a moving train, so I have some sympathy for the railroad worker, but local ne'er-do-well Buck Jones rushes to the little fellow's defense and the railroad guy easily knocks him down as well.
A western comedy-drama about a very nice homeless man who befriends a homeless child. He does make the kid go to school. I thought female schoolteachers were barred from dating back then, but the teacher (Helen Ferguson) has a boyfriend who convinces her to embezzle school funds. When the kid is injured falling off a train, the doctor's wife thinks he's the missing child whose rich father offered a large reward for his return and Buck Jones and Georgie are separated
According to the intertitles, the kid says "hell" and "damn". Even in silent film, foul-mouthed children were cute.
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Buck Jones died at 50 of injuries sustained in the horrible Coconut Grove fire in 1942. Georgie Stone's last film was made in 1923 when he was thirteen or fourteen. He died in 2010 when he was 100-years-old. Helen Ferguson gave up acting in 1933 and became a successful publicist. She retired in 1967 and died in 1977.
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