Police Court
Cast & Crew
Louis King
Henry B. Walthall
Al St. John
Leon Janney
Aileen Pringle
King Baggott
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Lauded veteran screen star Nathaniel Barry's career is in decline due to his alcoholism. After his teenage son Junior rescues him from a jail sentence by telling the judge that Nat has landed a job, Nat makes a valiant attempt at recovery, but he is unable to recite his lines before the cameras. Nat then works for a carnival sideshow impersonating Abraham Lincoln, but the show is closed, and Nat and Junior are left destitute. Junior makes an impassioned plea to Albert Furman, the president of Master Pictures Corp., to once again hire Nat. Although Furman refuses, he does hire Junior for a part in a film called Father and Son , believing Junior is good enough to follow in his father's footsteps. Junior arrives home with the good news to find his father missing and an empty liquor bottle on the table. Nat is arrested in a barroom brawl, and he lands in jail. Diana McCormick, famous screen star at Master Pictures and former leading lady to Nat in life as well as on-screen, takes custody of Junior, and he lives on her estate while making his movie. Junior is unable to stop worrying about Nat, however, and it affects his work. The director, Harry Field, manages to get Nat paroled so that he can play the part of Junior's father in the film, and Nat is released from the prison hospital, where he was placed due to his severely declining health. While filming the last scene, in which a father sentenced to be hanged dies while bidding farewell to his son, Nat gives an outstanding performance and actually dies. At the film's lavish premiere, Junior is well on his way in following in his famous father's footsteps.
Director
Louis King
Cast
Henry B. Walthall
Al St. John
Leon Janney
Aileen Pringle
King Baggott
Lionel Belmore
Edmund Breese
Walter James
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
Variety and New York Times reviewed the film as Fame Street. Film Daily lists Charles Hunt as film editor, however, he is not credited elsewhere.
