And the Children Pay
Cast & Crew
Jacques Tyrol
Gareth Hughes
Bliss Milford
Herbert Pattee
Etta Mansfield
John P. Campbell
Film Details
Synopsis
On the eve of his son Billy's departure for college, William Clark sends the boy to a brothel to learn of life's necessary evils. On his Christmas holiday, Billy, who has fallen in with a fast crowd, persuades his childhood sweetheart, Margery Reynolds, to drink wine and then takes the intoxicated girl to a hotel. Back at college, Billy refuses to marry the pregnant Marge, and she, unable to confide in her father, a minister, leaves for Chicago, where her child is born blind and crippled. When Marge, forced into prostitution, recognizes Billy at a brothel, he is arrested and fined $550 for child support. After the baby dies in court, however, Billy returns home, and Marge is taken to Kate Addams' Coulter House for fallen women. At the insistence of his father, Billy agrees to marry another woman, but Rev. Reynolds, whose wife has died of grief, learns of Billy's betrayal and denounces him from the altar. Billy, taken ill, dies in his mother's arms.
Director
Jacques Tyrol
Cast
Gareth Hughes
Bliss Milford
Herbert Pattee
Etta Mansfield
John P. Campbell
Judge Charles N. Goodnow
Judge John R. Newcomer
Kate Addams
Harry B. Miller
Ellen Mortemer
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Notes
The film's scenario was suggested by a case prosecuted by Chicago Assistant State Attorney Clifford G. Roe. Judge Goodnow served on the Chicago Municipal Court and Judge Newcomer on the Domestic Relations Court; Kate Addams founded Chicago's Coulter House; and Harry B. Miller served as Chicago's City Prosecutor. Jacques Tyrol formed his own company in February 1919, Tyrad Pictures, Inc., which distributed the film thereafter. Some location scenes were filmed in Chicago. This film was copyrighted in 1916 under the title The Eleventh Hour. The author is listed as Winifred E. Jenson.
