Mary Jane's Pa (1917)
50m
Running Time
August 13, 1917Release Date
Mary Jane's Pa (1917)
50m
Running Time
August 13, 1917Release Date
Plot.
After wandering the world for fifteen years, Hiram Perkins returns home to find his wife running a small town newspaper to support their two daughters. With pity in her heart, Mrs. Perkins allows her husband to stay in the house providing that he not disclose his identity. Mrs. Perkins is waging a battle against the re-election of Joel Skinner for a seat in the assembly, and when she learns that Skinner has mistreated old Mrs. Miller, she is determined to expose his actions. Rome Preston, running in opposition to Skinner, requests that she stop the story, but Mrs. Perkins refuses and so Preston disables the press. With Hiram's help, Mrs. Perkins prints the story and Skinner is defeated. In revenge, Skinner's men burn the press and demand that Hiram be tarred and feathered. At this moment, Mrs. Perkins acknowledges that Hiram is her husband and all is forgiven as the Perkins family is reunited.
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silent film
Wiki.
Mary Jane's Pa is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Charles Brabin and William P.S. Earle and starring Marc McDermott, Mildred Manning and Eulalie Jensen.
It is based on the 1906 play Mary Jane's Pa by Edith Ellis, later adapted into a 1935 sound film of the same title.