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  • The Godfather (1911)
  • Short | Drama, Short
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The Godfather (1911)
Short | Drama, Short
A woman is loved by two men and marries one. The disappointed suitor becomes the godfather of her baby boy and goes west, after depositing $5,000 to the credit of the baby, an amount won on a horse race. The husband's gambling proclivities...See moreA woman is loved by two men and marries one. The disappointed suitor becomes the godfather of her baby boy and goes west, after depositing $5,000 to the credit of the baby, an amount won on a horse race. The husband's gambling proclivities cause the woman much sorrow, and after his death she is wrapped up in her boy. On his 21st birthday he receives the money, and against the entreaties of his mother, loses it gambling. Ashamed, he goes west and becomes involved in a quarrel in a card game with his godfather, whom he shoots in the arm. He is about to be lynched when a ring upon his finger is recognized by the man as one be gave the baby more than twenty years back. The youth's life is saved, and the terrible lesson makes them both renounce gambling. They go east to the boy's mother, who is overjoyed to see her boy again, and who looks with loving eyes upon her old sweetheart. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Aug 26, 1911
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Aug 26, 1911 (United States)

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