His Mother's Boy
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Victor L. Schertzinger
Director
Charles Ray
Matthew Denton
Doris Lee
Mabel Glenny
William Elmer
Banty Jones
Joseph Swickard
Tom Glenny
Jerome Storm
Jimmie Noonan
Film Details
Release Date
Dec
24,
1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Thomas H. Ince Corp.
Distribution Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Where Life is Marked Down" by Rupert Hughes in The Saturday Evening Post (2 Jun 1906).
Synopsis
Angered by the assertions of the townspeople that his late father swindled them in an oil well proposition, Matthew Denton finally breaks away from the apron strings of his mother and leaves for Texas to look into the matter. Pretending to be a laborer in the oil fields, Matthew discovers that the superintendent of the wells, Banty Jones, has been tapping the main pipeline and selling the oil on his own accord, hence the shortage in the stockholder's dividends. However, Matthew is afraid to confront Jones until the superintendent insults Mabel Glenny, the pretty daughter of the town drunk. His manhood aroused, Matthew regains the missing funds, as well as winning Mabel as his bride, and proves that he is not his mother's boy.
Director
Victor L. Schertzinger
Director
Cast
Charles Ray
Matthew Denton
Doris Lee
Mabel Glenny
William Elmer
Banty Jones
Joseph Swickard
Tom Glenny
Jerome Storm
Jimmie Noonan
Gertrude Claire
Mrs. Denton
Lydia Knott
Mrs. Glenny
Crew
Film Details
Release Date
Dec
24,
1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Thomas H. Ince Corp.
Distribution Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Where Life is Marked Down" by Rupert Hughes in The Saturday Evening Post (2 Jun 1906).
