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A Protégé of Uncle Sam (1912)
Short | Short, Drama

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A Protégé of Uncle Sam (1912)

Short | Short, Drama

The story begins with the life story of a boy found in his dead mother's arms in the slums of New York. He is adopted from an orphanage by rich people and grows up as their son. The parental discipline of his foster father isn't quite ...See moreThe story begins with the life story of a boy found in his dead mother's arms in the slums of New York. He is adopted from an orphanage by rich people and grows up as their son. The parental discipline of his foster father isn't quite enough to keep the kid straight. His foster father is unable to rein him in and he runs a pretty fast pace. There is a girl in the story, the daughter of the banker who is a warm friend of the foster father and who tries to train the lad to be a businessman, but fails. The girl knows that there is much good in him and she remains his true friend, even after he has been discharged for drunkenness by his employer and cast adrift by his foster father in the hope that he will wake up and make a man of himself. There isn't much hope of it: he goes from bad to worse and his course downward is steady. He is now down and out and finds the upper part of the city "healthier" than the Chatham Square purlieus. The young man is shown leaning on a railing at Riverside Drive watching the armada of fighting ships. The girl, passing in an automobile, recognizes him, gets out and advises him to join the navy. This he does. The second reel occupies itself mostly with his experience in the navy. It shows us ships and life on shipboard. In the end he comes up smiling as a genuine hero and wins the girl who has been true to him all these years. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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