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A stern father rules his little family by what he thinks to be the Bible's precepts, but it is simply the influence of his own narrow mind, he forgetting entirely his own youth. Hence when his boy suggests going to a barn dance, h...
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"Charles Hill Mailes orders son Robert Harron away for wanting to wear a four-in-hand and go to dances, instead of the god-fearing ways he should behave. This sets up weeping and wailing among the womenfolk (mother Kate Bruce, daughter Mary Pickford), but Mailes will have none of it. When blacksmith Wilfred Lucas comes courting, Miss Pickford marries him; but when he sees her hugging her brother, he imagines the worst. Only one reel of this D. W. Griffith two-reel movie survives. Doubtless many details and subtleties are missing, but even so, the main point, that evil is in the mind of the beh..."
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A stern father rules his little family by what he thinks to be the Bible's precepts, but it is simply the influence of his own narrow mind, he forgetting entirely his own youth. Hence when his boy suggests going to a barn dance, h...