Smoldering Embers

Story

Synopsis

When John Conroy's wife takes his infant son Jack and runs away with another man, Conroy becomes a tramp and goes to Alaska. Fifteen years later, he returns and learns that his son Jack is being coerced into marrying Edith Wyatt, the daughter of a congressman, in order to further the political ambitions of his stepfather, Mayor Horace Manners. Conroy makes friends with the boy, who is unaware that the congenial tramp is actually his father. Jack loves cobbler's daughter Beth Stafford, and when Conroy discovers that Manners plans to frame Jack for the loss of city funds and thus scare him into marriage with Edith, he intercedes and insures that his son receives both his rightful inheritance and the woman whom he loves. After securing the boy's happiness, Conroy slips away without revealing his true identity to his son.

Director

Frank Keenan

Writers

Kate Corbaley, Dorothy Yost

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

29 February 1920

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Frank Keenan

  John Conroy

• 

  Jay Belasco

  Jack Manners

• Katherine Van Buren

  Beth Stafford

• 

  Russ Powell

  Tramp

• Graham Pettie

  Tramp

• 

  Hardee Kirkland

  Horace Manners

• 

  Lucille Ward

  Annie Manners

• 

  Frances Raymond

  Edith Wyatt

• 

  Tom Guise

  Congressman Wyatt

• 

  Burwell Hamrick

  The Boy