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Just Plain Folks

1916 · 16 min

A quiet, earnest silent melodrama that unfolds gently, asking patience as it builds toward a mother's moral reckoning.

Tagline
A Beautiful Story of a Mother's Love for a Wayward Boy.
Overview
The owner of a small rustic hotel marries a local widow, whereupon the couple sets up housekeeping with their respective grown sons. The hotelier's son is a budding thief, but it is the widow's son who is blamed for his half-brother's crimes. When the truth comes out, the widow patches up the tattered relationships between the father, his son and his stepson -- and it is the widow who rids the community of the "bad element" who led the thieving son astray.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • betrayal
  • guilt
  • redemption
  • parenthood
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
William C. Dowlan
Starring
William C. Dowlan, Helen Wright, V.T. Henderson, Gloria Fonda, Frank MacQuarrie
Runtime
16 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
No Language

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