The Battle of Ballots
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Frank B. Coigne
William Wells
Mayre Hall
Baroness Dorothy Van Raven
Robert Web Lawrence
Laura Mackin
Film Details
Synopsis
The friendship between popular saloonkeeper Lafe Tuthill and iceman James Hazelet ends when Hunt Hartman, an agent of the Saloon League, wrongly accuses Hazelet of voting for prohibition in the recent, bitter election. Tuthill and Hazelet come to blows, and their children are told not to associate with each other. However, Hazelet's son Jack, and Tuthill's daughter Oma, fall in love. When Mrs. Tuthill argues against Tuthill's order that Oma leave school to help in the saloon, Tuthill drunkenly shoves her. She later dies from injuries sustained in her fall. After Tuthill tries to force Oma to marry Hartman, Tuthill dies from delirium tremens. Alcohol also kills money shark Dan Weber, whose son Samuel, raised in idleness, runs off with the slatternly wife of Oma's brother Albert. Later, Albert builds a movie theater where his father's saloon once stood. Jack, married to Oma, wins the election for mayor over Hartman.
Director
Frank B. Coigne
Cast
William Wells
Mayre Hall
Baroness Dorothy Van Raven
Robert Web Lawrence
Laura Mackin
Mary Navarro
G. Charles Bryant
Frank Whitson
Frank B. Coigne
Wilfred Jessop
John Ellis
Harry Harford
Creston Clark
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Notes
This film, the first production of the Good Luck Film Co., was made at the Century studio in Edgewater, NJ. Pictures of prominent temperance workers taken at a convention in Atlantic City, NJ were included in the film. Mayre Hall appeared in vaudeville under the name, Dearest St. Clair. Baroness Dorothy Van Raven was Dorothy Kingdon before her marriage.
