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Her Father
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Bertram Bracken
Cast: Henry King [Major Benson, Mary’s father], Dolly Larkin [Mary Benson, Harry’s sweetheart], Ray Gallagher [Harry Radford], Betty Baird (Elizabeth Baird) [Mrs. Radford, Harry’s mother], Velma Whitman, Henry Stanley, A. Von Harder (Armin von Harder)
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 6 December 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Harry Radford, son of a rich orange grower, loves Mary Benson, a poor but refined young dressmaker. He proposes and Mary, though reluctant, finally accepts. Mary’s father, Major Benson, once proud and well off, is now a drunkard. The major sees Harry kissing Mary and realizes the situation. Harry’s father is proud of his own success. Harry hesitates to tell him of his engagement to Mary. The next morning father and son run across Major Benson in the orchard. The major is drinking, and foolishly addresses Radford as his future brother-in-law. Radford is in a rage when Harry acknowledges his engagement to Mary, and tells his son that he will disinherit him if he marries “that sot’s daughter.” Radford goes to Mary’s house and persuades her to give up Harry. The girl writes a note to her sweetheart telling him that she and her father will leave for the east on the afternoon train, and that it is good-bye. When Mary goes to the depot for a time-table, Major Benson reads Mary’s note, in which his worthlessness is mentioned. Sobered and remorseful, the old man decides to sacrifice himself. He writes a note to Mary, telling her that he is going away so that she can marry Harry. He takes Mary’s meager savings from a vase and drops the note in its place. He leaves just before Mary returns. Mary packs up her small belongings, then dispatches a boy with her note to Harry. Finding her money gone and the Major’s note, she rushes to the railroad station, just in time to see the train pulling out with Major Benson on the back platform. Dazed, the girl sits on the station platform. Meanwhile, Harry gets the note. He denounces his father and declares that he will take the night train east and find Mary. Harry goes to his room and packs his suitcase. Mrs. Radford, whose aid has been enlisted by Harry, pleads with Radford to give his consent to the match. The orange grower refuses, until Mrs. Radford recalls their young days, when Radford, then a boy of twenty-one, took her from her drunken father. Radford gives in and he and Mrs. Radford start for the depot to see about taking the next train to find Mary. On the platform they are surprised to find the girl. They plead with her to go home with them, but she refuses at first. Harry, with suitcase packed, is leaving the house when he phones to the depot to ask about the next train. The ticket agent tells him, as a piece of news, that the afternoon train which left some time ago, has gone through a bridge with all on board lost. Thinking Mary was on the wrecked train, Harry goes temporarily insane, wrecking the handsome library of the Radford home. He is about to smash the big mirror when he sees the reflection of Mary, who has returned. The boy is overpowered by Radford and the servants. After a long illness Harry awakens in his right mind, to find Mary at his bedside.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 January 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
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