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  • The Counting of Time (1912)
  • Short | Drama, Short
The Counting of Time (1912)
Short | Drama, Short
With equal chances for success, the brothers, Jack and Dick Conway, leave their country home to seek employment in the city. To the annoyance of Dick, Jack insists upon their taking rooms at a cheap boarding house, and at once starts out ...See moreWith equal chances for success, the brothers, Jack and Dick Conway, leave their country home to seek employment in the city. To the annoyance of Dick, Jack insists upon their taking rooms at a cheap boarding house, and at once starts out to find work. In answer to an advertisement, the brothers find work with an importing firm, but while Jack makes himself a favorite with all and rapidly advances. Dick is soon discharged through his combativeness. At night Jack hurries off to night college, while Dick frequents the Athletic Club. Some time later, we see Jack studying law, while Dick is training to be a fighter, and still later, Jack has been admitted to the bar and is pleading his first important case, while Dick is fighting his first championship fight. Jack loses and hurries home, to the same little room that he and his brother first engaged, to study. Dick wins and with a merry party of friends enters a smart buffet and later the café, where he meets, for the first time, the class of women who frequent such places, and in the wee small hours, he is brought home to his handsome bachelor apartments. Later we again see Jack pleading a case and this time he wins, while Dick, who is fighting to hold the championship, loses. A year passes. Jack is a successful lawyer, of whom Dick is forced, from time to time, to borrow money. Dissipation has done its work and those who crowded around him but a year ago, now pass him by with a curt nod. At last Jack writes to his father to come and take Dick home, as his health is not of the best. Dick is finally forced to submit, so after, years of wasted efforts, broken in health and spirits, Dick finds himself at the starting point. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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David Horsley
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Updated May 13, 1912
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May 13, 1912 (United States)

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Jack Conway - First Brother Jack Conway - First Brother   See fewer
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