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Old Home Week (1911)
Short | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Old Home Week (1911)

Short | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

John Hepburn was raised in a little country village, and went to the city to seek his fortune. His relatives were dead, and he had quarreled with his childhood sweetheart, so somehow Jayville rather passed out of his mind. Years later, ...See moreJohn Hepburn was raised in a little country village, and went to the city to seek his fortune. His relatives were dead, and he had quarreled with his childhood sweetheart, so somehow Jayville rather passed out of his mind. Years later, when he was one of New York's millionaires, it was recalled to his mind by reading an item to the effect that Jayville was to have an "Old Home Week," on which occasion the roving sons of the village were expected to gather and renew old friendships. The article also mentioned incidentally that the village could not boast of any millionaires among those who had gone out to seek fame and fortune. But Hepburn was in the millionaire class, and he determined to show his old townsmen that he had not forgotten them. He wanted to prove, however, that they loved him for himself alone, and that the greed of gold could find no lodging in their sturdy breasts. So he hid all evidence of wealth, and went down, to all appearances, a poor man, who had battled with life and had not achieved much success. Things did not turn out as he had expected. His shabby clothes caused unfavorable comment, and everywhere he went he was shunned and snubbed. The only person who greeted him cordially was his old sweetheart, and the love of childhood was revived. After a time, the villagers began to take notice of Hepburn. There was a reward offered for the capture of a noted burglar, and it was decided, by unanimous vote, that Hepburn was the man wanted. So he was promptly arrested, and as the village had no jail, was locked up in a barn, and there was a sign over the door reading "Welcome," which made the first time that the village's richest son had received any attention. The girl promptly freed him, for the country constables pay little attention to prisoners after they lock them up. And the boy returns to the city, with the girl's promise that she will wed him as soon as he says the word. He says the word promptly. The girl meets him under the old tree on which as children, he has carved their initials, and they are married. Then they start off on their wedding tip in his auto. The machine, when it draws up at the railroad depot, causes the villagers to gape. Their surprise is intensified when their former townsman, utterly ignoring them, tacks a sign up on the side of the depot. And their grief cannot be expressed when they read the sign. For he explains, in a few vigorous words, that he has bought the railroad and that after the current day, trains would not stop at Jayville. If the villagers had been good, they might have been presented with a library. As it is, all they have is the privilege of seeing trains go by and never stop. And the principal fun at a country station is watching the trains stop. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Frank Hall Crane John Hepburn (as Frank H. Crane) John Hepburn (as Frank H. Crane) See fewer	The Stolen Voice (1915)

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