Movie: Father's Son

Top 10 Billed Cast

Leon Janney
Leon Janney

Bill Emory

Lewis Stone
Lewis Stone

William Emory

Irene Rich
Irene Rich

Ruth Emory

John Halliday
John Halliday

Dr. Franklin

Mickey Bennett
Mickey Bennett

Junior Pettis

Robert Dandridge
Robert Dandridge

Vestibule Pullman Porter

George H. Reed
George H. Reed

Pullman Porter Johnson

Gertrude Howard
Gertrude Howard

Dinah

Bertha Mann
Bertha Mann

Mrs. Stewart

Grover Ligon
Grover Ligon

Chauffeur

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    Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.

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    1931-03-07

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