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Like Darby and Joan (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

Like Darby and Joan (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

The lives of an aged couple have been simple and kind, and as their years advanced toward the time of lengthening shadows the more eager they were to temper their effort of judgment with compassion. A stranger dropped into the quietude of ...See moreThe lives of an aged couple have been simple and kind, and as their years advanced toward the time of lengthening shadows the more eager they were to temper their effort of judgment with compassion. A stranger dropped into the quietude of the simple fisher village, and because his city ways had calloused the more tender sensibilities of his better nature, he forgot the rustic conception of the term "sweetheart." Wanton flirting ended in physical struggle between the youth who really loved and the man whose infatuation was but a whim. It was then that the aged couple intervened and used the power of moral recitation to bring into existence the power of right. And as the angry combatants paused to listen, Darby told his story. Way back in early years a similar condition between virtue and a more careless man had taken place. The brawny husband of the modest wife ignored the process of legal right in punishing the culprit who dared an attempt to add a blemish to the sanctity of wedlock. Aided by a couple of his companions, mere simple folk who knew not the careless indifference of city ways, the pleading offender was taken far out to sea and cast adrift and when this offender's wife searched the rocky stretch of neighboring shore, she found him, and even though his hair was matted and his features drawn in straggle, the wife wept and mourned his loss. As the story finished the listening offender realized the purity of the white-haired couple that sought to save one who might invade like conditions of fisher felicity. His eyes softened with his realization that "This life would be sweet and naught to atone. If only we were like Darby and Joan." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Robert Z. Leonard The Old Fisherman The Old Fisherman See fewer	The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Margarita Fischer The Old Fisherman's Wife The Old Fisherman's Wife See fewer	Molly of the Follies (1919)
Marcia Moore Their Little Friend Their Little Friend See fewer	The Land of Oz (1910)
William McDonald Her Sweetheart Her Sweetheart See fewer	Like Darby and Joan (1913)
Ed Brady The Stranger The Stranger See fewer	Son of Kong (1933)