A Hoosier Romance (1918)

A Hoosier Romance

1918

Comedy Drama

Synopsis

Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her life of drudgery is brightened by John, the hired hand, but when he asks for her hand in marriage, the old man flies into a rage and discharges him. Soon an aged but wealthy widower courts Patience, and although she still loves John, "Old Jeff" orders her to marry the widower, claiming that a father's will is the law.

Credits

Director

Colin Campbell

Cast

Billy Jacobs as Child

Colleen Moore as Patience Thompson

Edward Jobson as The Squire

Eugenie Besserer as The Squire's Wife

Frank Hayes as The Widower

Harry McCoy as John

Thomas Jefferson as Jeff Thompson

Crew