Name: Trifling With Honor
Released: 1923
Cast: Rockliffe Fellowes, Fritzi Ridgeway, Buddy Messinger, Hayden Stevenson, Emmett King

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

His Good Name, Your Good Name

Release Date

Jun 4, 1923

Premiere Information

New York premiere: 28 May 1923

Production Company

Universal Pictures

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "His Good Name," by William Slavens McNutt in Colliers (22 Jul 1922).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

7,785ft (8 reels)

Synopsis

Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living. When Shugrue realizes his influence, he refuses to "throw" a game for blackmailers who threaten to reveal his past, and he goes to Judge Drury to tell the whole truth. The judge decides that Shugrue is more valuable free than in jail; the star is reunited with Ida.