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His Only Child
(1910) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 997 feet
Directed by Thomas Ricketts (Tom Ricketts)
Cast: (unknown)
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. / Released 8 January 1910. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From Billboard]? Philip Strong, a millionaire railroad magnate, enwrapped in his business cares, has little time for his little motherless son, who develops traits of disobedience. The boy causes no end of trouble. One evening Strong receives word to attend an important meeting. He is packing his grip, and in doing so removes his revolver. The little boy notes its hiding place. The next day the youngster procures the weapon. It is accidentally discharged and the boy is severely wounded. A telegram is immediately sent to the father, who charters a special train and makes for home in record-breaking time. He arrives just as the doctor is working over the little boy. He is assured the boy will recover, then returns to work. Miss Norton, the nurse, is a very pretty young woman with an affectionate disposition, and wins the love of her charge. One day the boy repulses his father and runs to his nurse. Incensed in his belief that the nurse has estranged his son from him, he discharges the nurse. When the nurse bids goodbye to the little boy, he cries bitterly and denounces his father. Then the father comes on the scene as the boy pleads, and Strong is won over.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 22 January 1910, page 91] A graphic illustration of what occurs when a man becomes so engrossed in business he forgets his family, or, perhaps it is better to say, overlooks the fact that they need affection or attention. Not all children are so well favored as the one here depicted in having a sympathetic nurse to look out for them. And even this picture, which seemed a bit forbidding at the beginning, ended happily with the father realizing that children need something more than stocks and bonds to make them grow up into well-balanced men and women. This picture possesses an unusual interest in its suggestion of what may occur, and what probably does occur, under certain conditions.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 23 January 2025.
References: MovPicWorld-19100108 p. 20 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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