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The Only Son
(1914) United States of America
B&W : [?] Four or Five? reels
Directed by [?] Oscar Apfel, William C. de Mille and/or Thomas N. Heffron?
Cast: James Blackwell [Thomas Brainerd Sr.], [?] Dick L’Estrange or A. MacMillan? [Henry Thompson], Thomas W. Ross [Thomas Brainerd Jr.], Jane Darwell [?] or Bernardine Zuber? [Mrs. Bess Brainerd], [?] Merta Carpenter or Elizabeth Beehr? [Gertrude Brainerd], [?] Arthur Collins or Milton Brown? [Jim Tompkins, a detective], [?] John P. Wild or Oscar Stephens? [Charles Lester], Fred Starr [Collins]
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed on State Rights basis. / Scenario by Clara S. Beranger, from the play The Only Son by Winchell Smith. / © 20 June 1914 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LU2890]. Released 15 June 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The fourth film production from Lasky. Industry publications alternately credited other actors for some roles: MacMillan as “Henry Thompson,” Zuber as “Mrs. Brainerd,” Beehr as “Gertrude Brainerd,” Brown as “Jim Tompkins,” and Stephens as “Charles Lester.”
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Thomas Brainerd, Sr., as a prospector, is a dutiful and loving husband and father. Two children, Gertrude and Thomas, Jr., are born while the Brainerds live in a log cabin in the mountains. Brainerd strikes gold, goes to New York, where he becomes a financial power. He neglects his wife, devotes every moment of his time to his growing industries, simply supplies funds to his family, and his wife, alone and melancholy, is fascinated by an artist and consents to “sit” for a painting. Feeling her neglect keenly, Mrs. Brainerd becomes a victim to the wiles of the artist, who, however, is killed by the husband of a former victim before the affair has progressed too far. Brainerd, learning of his wife’s affair with the artist, orders her from the house. Thomas, Jr. sides with and accompanies his mother. Heretofore a worthless spendthrift, Thomas now becomes ambitious and joins interest with a penniless inventor, goes west, establishes a factory, makes a go of it, sells out to his father at an enormous advance, convinces his father that his mother is innocent and, as he transfers the invention to his father’s firm, sees his mother in his father’s arms, which example he immediately follows by proposing to the girl he has always loved. // Additional synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3270.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 17 April 2024.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3270; Tarbox-Lost p. 206 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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