The Country Boy
Cast & Crew
Frederick Thomson
Marshal Neilan
Florence Dagmar
Dorothy Green
Loyola O'connor
Mrs. Lewis Mccord
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Tom Wilson, reared by his widowed mother in a small town, goes to New York after Judge Belknap, his sweetheart Jane's father, says he will not allow their marriage until Tom can support her in comfort. In New York, Tom gets a fifteen-dollar-a-week job as a clerk, and becomes infatuated with Amy Leroy, a chorus girl, whom he believes combines the qualities of Venus and Diana. Amy teases Tom both to irritate her lover, playboy Jimmy Michaelson, and to amuse herself, but it causes Tom to lose Jane, as well as his job, which he had neglected. When he learns of Jane's reasons for pursuing him, Tom nearly commits suicide, but Merkle, a newspaperman who befriended him, stops Tom and suggests they start a newspaper in Tom's hometown with the money that their friend, ticket speculator Weinstein, won at roulette. After the newspaper succeeds, Jane forgives Tom and the judge agrees to their marriage.
Director
Frederick Thomson
Cast
Marshal Neilan
Florence Dagmar
Dorothy Green
Loyola O'connor
Mrs. Lewis Mccord
Horace B. Carpenter
Edward Lewis
Ernest Joy
Tex Driscoll
Al Ernest Garcia
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
This film, which is presumed lost, contains the earliest known appearance of the legendary Erich von Stroheim, who appears as an extra in a restaurant scene, proving he began his career at least two months before he appeared in "The Birth of a Nation."
Notes
The film opened in New York on February 20, 1915. "The Red Heads," an Orpheum vaudeville act owned by Jesse L. Lasky, appeared in the film.
