The Whipping Boss
Cast & Crew
J. P. Mcgowan
Wade Boteler
Eddie Phillips
J. P. Mcgowan
Lloyd Hughes
Barbara Bedford
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Synopsis
Under a system whereby convicts are leased by the State of Oregon to individual private companies, Jim is sent to work for a lumber company and forced to toil in a cypress swamp. He soon becomes ill and, unable to work, is cruelly whipped by the company's whipping boss. Jim's mother learns of his plight and comes to Oregon, enlisting the aid of Dick Forrest, the head of the local post of the American Legion. Forrest obtains an order for Jim's release, and Livingston, the owner of the lumber camp, seeking to destroy the evidence of wrongdoing, orders the whipping boss to set fire to the stockade in which the prisoners are chained. Forrest and members of the American Legion arrive in time to save the convicts, and Livingston and the whipping boss are themselves sent to prison. Jim is freed, and Forrest becomes engaged to Grace Woodward, the daughter of the president of the logging company. The elder Woodward vows to eliminate the inhumane conditions in the lumber camps.
Director
J. P. Mcgowan
Cast
Wade Boteler
Eddie Phillips
J. P. Mcgowan
Lloyd Hughes
Barbara Bedford
Billy Elmer
Andrew Waldron
George Cummings
Lydia Knott
Clarence Geldert
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