A Man's Duty
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Harry A. Gant
Clarence Brooks
Webb King
Tasmania Darden
Ethel Gray
Eva Johnson
Film Details
Synopsis
Socialite Richard Beverly and Hubert Gordon are rivals for the affections of Myra Lewis. A drunken revel, contrived by Hubert to embarrass Richard in public, ends with the two spending the night at a bordello. Learning of the trick the next day, Richard fights Hubert, who hits his head on a rock after Richard fells him. Richard, thinking that he is a murderer, flees and becomes a dissipated drunk in a distant city, where he meets Merriam Givens, an unmarried woman with a child. Hoping to clear himself of disgrace so that he can marry Merriam, he writes home and learns that, although Hubert survived the accident, the prostitute Helen is pregnant as a result of their night together. Richard confides to Merriam, who tells him that the child she has raised is not hers and that he should return home to marry Helen. Upon his return he learns that Hubert, who has married Myra, is really the father of Helen's unborn child. Richard summons Merriam to his home to join in a joyous family reunion.
Cast
Clarence Brooks
Webb King
Tasmania Darden
Ethel Gray
Eva Johnson
Anita Thompson
W. H. Sanders
Mrs. Connors
Frank White
Gennette Criner
Crew
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Notes
This was the first feature-length production of the Lincoln Motion Picture Co., one of the leading black independent companies of the period. Contemporary sources disagree as to whether Gant or Thomas directed the film. Anita Thompson is also identified as Anita DeBois by contemporary sources.
