Cal, with his mother lives on a small sheep ranch, and is by no means wealthy. Cal is known as a dreamer throughout the countryside. His mother is a pathetic little thing who it would seem ... See full summary
His Father's Son (1914) Online
Cal, with his mother lives on a small sheep ranch, and is by no means wealthy. Cal is known as a dreamer throughout the countryside. His mother is a pathetic little thing who it would seem harbored some secret sorrow. Cal is sent one evening by his mother for coffee. Cal rides to the village store, arriving just in time to interfere with a crowd of drunken cowboys having sport at the expense of an old, well-known Indian who has been wounded by the cowboys. Cal takes him home. The Indian is attended to and fed. That evening Cal becomes sufficiently impressed with his mother's moroseness that he inquires relative to her past life. Incidentally he has seen her gazing upon an old photograph. The inscription on the photograph tells him that it is his father. Quite reluctantly his mother tells him her story. Twenty years previously she married the boy's father. He was a westerner and wealthy but was unsatisfied with the west. Soon after the marriage he sold out and went east. It was not ...
| Cast overview: | |||
 | J. Warren Kerrigan | - | Cal Horton Sr. - the Father / Cal Horton Jr. - the Son |
 | Vera Sisson | - | Mrs. Horton - Cal Jr.'s Mother |
 | Marc B. Robbins | - | (as Marc Robbins) |
 | George Periolat |
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