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Dick’s Turning
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Lawrence B. McGill
Cast: Edward Genung (Ed Genung) [Dick], Isabelle Lamon (Isabel Lamon) [Milly, Dick’s wife], Alan Hale [the rich boy’s father], Edgena De Lespine [the rich boy’s mother], Bruce Macomber [the rich little boy]
Reliance Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / From a screen story by Forrest Halsey. / Released 2 July 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Dick, only a boy in years, is married to Milly, sixteen. He is able to support her until the big strike comes and his job is taken away. Unable to get another he is forced to see their little bits of furniture taken away, and himself and wife put out of the poor rooms. The girl has to go back to her father’s home and he accompanies her. At the door her father calls him a loafer and sends him away. In the park Dick sits and thinks. Work is hard to find. Milly is being cared for and since they think him a loafer, he will be one. He decides to be a hobo. At this point a kitten jumps on his knee. Before he goes he will take it to Milly, for he knows she will like it. On his way to his Milly, the kitten gets away from him and he follows it into an alley leading into the courtyard of a rich home. A boy in this house has just been given a new rifle, and seeing the kitten on the fence, he aims at it but hits Dick instead. Dick is carried into the house, where the rich boy’s mother, touched to the heart by his pathetic story, cares for him and sends for Milly. When he is all well again she gives him a position in her household as a chauffeur and the young couple resume housekeeping.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 12 July 1913, page ?] The young husband, who has lost his job and is forced to send his wife back to her father, thinks he will pick up a stray cat to take to her. As he takes hold of the feline, a small boy shoots him with an air gun, from a nearby window. He is taken into the house and gets a job as chauffeur as a result of the injury, and is, of course, reunited with his wife. Somehow the story impressed us as a little too sentimental to carry much force, and the characterizations were not quite what they might have been. We have liked the leading man in this better in parts more suited to his general build and appearance.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 15 January 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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