Name: Her Boy
Released: 1918
Cast: Effie Shannon, Niles Welch, Pauline Curley, James T. Galloway, Pat O'malley

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jan 28, 1918

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Metro Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

Metro Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "Conscription" by W. Carey Wonderly in Snappy Stories (18 Oct 1917).

Synopsis

When the United States enters World War I, Helen Morrison, a widow, worries that she will lose her only son David, who has just reached the age of twenty-one. Although David patriotically urges the employees at his factory to enlist, he reluctantly gives in to his mother's pleas to remain at home with her. When David is drafted, his mother, panic-stricken, alters the date on his birth certificate, even though the later birthdate implies that he is illegitimate. Disgusted, David enlists under an assumed name, thus shaming Helen, who confesses her dishonesty to the townspeople. Her son, now in uniform, then forgives her.