In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.
Cast
Mae Marsh
Ma Shelby
James Dunn
Johnny Shelby as an Adult
Sally Eilers
Isabel Potter as an Adult
James Kirkwood
Pa Shelby in Prologue
Edward Crandall
Thomas as an Adult
Claire Maynard
Phyllis Shelby, Johnny's Wife
Olin Howland
Isaac as an Adult
Joan Peers
Susan as an Adult
Joe Hachey
Isaac Shelby in Prologue
Tommy Conlon
Johnny Shelby in Prologue
Julius Molnar
Thomas Shelby in Prologue
Marilyn Harris
Susan Shelby in Prologue
Nancy Irish
Isabel Potter in Prologue
Eula Guy
Minnie, Isaac's Wife
William Pawley
Ben Adams, Susan's Husband
George H. Reed
Les, Wagon Driver
Douglas Walton
Stephen
David Hartford
Bill Collector
Billy Barty
Shelby Boy (uncredited)
Ward Bond
Detective Escort (uncredited)
Crew
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