Seth Parker takes in Robbie Turner and protects him from his cruel father Rufe. When the father disappears, Seth intends to raise Robbie as his own son. The vindictive father attacks Mary Lucy, a neighbor's daughter who is also trying to help Robbie. Mary's boyfriend David rescues her, and Rufe runs off with his son. But not for long.
Plot keywords (from IMDb): abduction, adoption, alcoholic, alcoholic father, barn dance, based on radio show, beating, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, carriage chase, child custody, constable, extortion, fallen woman, family comedy, family farm, farm hand, farmer, fight, fired from a job, folk music, forgiveness, foster child, gossip, gunfire, horse and buggy, house party, illegitimacy, income tax, interrupted elopement, intolerance, kidnapping, legal guardian, lesson in tolerance, maine, marriage, men's quartet, motherless boy, new england, organ, ostracism, pet dog, preacher, pulling taffy, race against time, reading a newspaper aloud, reference to bangor maine, reputation, rescue, revenge, ruffian, rural drama, rural setting, secret romance, singing, singing harmony, singing quartet, single mother, social evening, society melodrama, spiritual music, taffy pull , telephone party line, title written by female, train station, trapdoor, whipping, family bible
Way Back Home (1931) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]