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The Helping Hand (II) (1912)
Short | Short, Drama

The Helping Hand (II) (1912)

Short | Short, Drama

John Clinton, an old mechanic, who is struggling to support his wife and pay off a mortgage on his little home, meets with a sad blow. He is discharged from a job he has held for years for the reason that he has reported too late for work....See moreJohn Clinton, an old mechanic, who is struggling to support his wife and pay off a mortgage on his little home, meets with a sad blow. He is discharged from a job he has held for years for the reason that he has reported too late for work. To add to their misery the man who holds the mortgage calls and insists on a payment, an installment being due. There is a deficit of $20 in the family exchequer in the payment of the claim. Clinton reads in a newspaper an account of a man who has sold his body to a medical society to be delivered after his demise. He conceives the idea of raising money that way, but his proposition is not regarded favorably when he broaches the subject to the superintendent of a medical college. He abandons hope and wanders aimlessly about. When passing a handsome residence from which two richly dressed women emerge and enter an automobile, he discovers a bag well filled with coin, which one drops. He does not hesitate a moment, but immediately gives chase to the car. In the meantime the loss of the money is noted and the women return in search of it. They meet John on the road and he surrenders the bag to the owner. She is delighted over the recovery and rewards him by bestowing upon him a bill of large denomination. He is now happy that he can pay the installment and hastens home to share the good news with his wife. Walking through the park he sits down on bench to rest. This bench is under a tree; a park employee is in the branches pruning the tree. Thugs see the old man counting the money and spring upon him. In the struggle he drops his wallet on the bench beside him. The employee sees the fight and the wallet, and with the shears reaches down and picks it up. The old man overpowered, the thugs look for the purse, but find it gone. They disappear, after giving John a parting blow. The man in the tree drops the purse near Clinton, and he finds it. The installment on the mortgage is paid and the old man is in ignorance of the hand that assisted him in his hour of need. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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J. Farrell MacDonald John Clinton (as Farrell MacDonald) John Clinton (as Farrell MacDonald) See fewer	Sunrise (1927)
Julia Hurley Mrs. John Clinton (as Mrs. Hurley) Mrs. John Clinton (as Mrs. Hurley) See fewer	Il trovatore (1914)

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