Bill Apperson's Boy


1919

Film Details

Release Date
Jun 22, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Jack Pickford Film Co.
Distribution Company
First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5,268ft (5 reels)

Synopsis

Buddy, the motherless son of mountaineer Bill Apperson, falls in love with Martha Yarton, who must take care of her widowed father and six brothers. When Bill remarries and Buddy sullenly refuses to call the new bride "mother," Bill hits him with a stick and immediately regrets it. Buddy leaves home and wanders toward the Yarton house where he follows a thief inside and shoots. The thief escapes, but Buddy is caught and only escapes a jail sentence when Martha says she saw the thief. Buddy and Bill are reconciled, but the town, still suspicious, shuns Buddy. Meanwhile, Mary, Bill's wife, had left rather than come between a father and son. Buddy calls her "mother" and she returns, but he is uneasy when his father embraces her. When Martha says she does not love him, he leaves town for a year, but returns to find that the thief has confessed, Bill and Mary have a baby, and Martha still loves him.

Film Details

Release Date
Jun 22, 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Jack Pickford Film Co.
Distribution Company
First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5,268ft (5 reels)

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Notes

Hapsburg Liebe's original story was entitled "That Woman." The film was copyrighted under the title Bill Aperson's Boy.