Square Shoulders (1929)

Square Shoulders

1929

Crime Drama

Synopsis

Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.

Credits

Director

E. Mason Hopper

Cast

Anita Louise as Mary Jane

Billy Lord as Cadet (uncredited)

C. Montague Shaw as Cartwright

Clarence Geldart as Commandant

Frank Coghlan Jr. as Tad

Kewpie Morgan as Delicate Don (as Allen Morgan)

Louis Wolheim as Slag

Maurice Black as Hook