Dick's Turning (1913)

• 69%
• 1913
• Drama
• Lawrence B. McGill
• Ed Genung
• Isabel Lamon
• Alan Hale

Dick, only a boy in years, is married to Milly, sixteen. He is able to support her until the big strike comes and his job is taken away. Unable to get another he is forced to see their little bits of furniture taken away, and himself and wife put out of the poor rooms. The girl has to go back to her father's home and he accompanies her. At the door her father calls him a loafer and sends him away. In the park Dick sits and thinks. Work is hard to find. Milly is being cared for and since they think him a loafer, he will be one. He decides to be a hobo. At this point a kitten jumps on his knee. Before he goes he will take it to Milly, for he knows she will like it. On his way to his Milly, the kitten gets away from him and he follows it into an alley leading into the courtyard of a rich home. A boy in this house has just been given a new rifle, and seeing the kitten on the fence, he aims at it but hits Dick instead. Dick is carried into the house, where the rich boy's mother, touched to the heart by his pathetic story, cares for him and sends for Milly. When he is all well again she gives him a position in her household as a chauffeur and the young couple resume housekeeping.