The Greater Duty 1922
The Greater Duty is a silent Western
The Greater Duty is a silent Western
A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers.
Stan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.
While Jim Barlow is hiding from the cops, his wife Ann goes to a mission The minister, Reverend John Matthews, gives her the address of a good Samaritan, Dr. LeRoy Clifford . When her child is hit by an automobile, she takes him to Clifford, who proceeds to operate right at his house. Meanwhile, one of Barlow's former associates, known as the Weasel tracks him down and convinces him to come on a job. The home they break into is Clifford's, while he is in the middle of working on Barlow's little boy. Barlow helps the doctor by holding a spotlight so he can complete the operation. The Library of Congress holds a 35 mm shortened version.
A young man in financial difficulties persuades his wife to help him blackmail a supposedly wealthy man.