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Just a Kid
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Charles West [Jim, the young man], Claire McDowell [Alice, Jim’s sweetheart], George Thomas [Bill, Jim’s rival], Sidney D’Albrook [the tramp], Howard Brooks [the kid], [?] Charles H. Mailes (Charles Hill Mailes)?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 7 December 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? On the way to a barn dance, Jim rescues a boy from ill treatment by a tramp who forces him to steal. The adventure keeps Jim from the dance, and his best girl, furious at the slight, gives him the cold shoulder. But he, interested in “the kid,” affects not to care. At last they are reunited by fire, when the girl is trapped in a blazing barn and rescued by Jim and the kid. The tramp, whose pipe caused the fire, vanishes from the vicinity, and the kid, no longer needing to fear him, is happy with Jim for a pal.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 December 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.
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