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Discontent
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Allen G. Siegler [?] and Lois Weber?
Cast: J. Edwin Brown [Pearson], Charles Hammond [Pearson’s nephew], Katherine Griffith [the nephew’s wife], Marie Walcamp [the nephew’s daughter], Alva Blake (Alva D. Blake) [the nephew’s son], John R. Hope [the son’s friend], Juan de la Cruz [Juan], Doc Crane
Distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Lois Weber, from a screen story by Lois Weber. / Released 25 January 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Old man Pearson was the most discontented soldier in the Home. He found fault with the food, beds, his companions and everything about the place. Pearson had a nephew living in the city nearby who was rather successful in business. He had a nice home and nice family consisting of his wife, to whom he was devoted, his son, who was studying for the ministry, and a very pretty daughter, who was engaged to be married to a man of whom they all approved. This happy little family often remembered Pearson. He received little presents of tobacco and Lioney and was often taken to ride in the family automobile or asked to dine at the family home. These attentions only aggravated the old man's discontent. By contrasting his nephew's affluence with the poverty of the Home, he gradually managed to create a spirit of unrest that threatened to spread throughout the institution. Fortunately his influence was removed at this time. Out of the kindness of his heart, the nephew, seeing that the old man was unhappy, made a place for him in his home, the old soldier became one of the family. Now. at last, he had all the things that he had missed at the Home. He had a lovely room, delicacies of every kind on his table, an automobile at his disposal, pocket money with which to enjoy himself. But he found himself made unhappy by the fact that his nephew thought it necessary to go out too much at night on business and it was not long before he communicated his unhappiness to the wife who had never before had a doubt of her loving husband. Also the fact that the son was preparing for the ministry without any actual knowledge of the world he was called upon to overcome, seemed so wrong to him that it presently seemed wrong to the young man himself. He also believed himself a good judge of the fitness of things and he found fault with the fact that the daughter contemplated marriage with a man shorter than she was. In fact he made such a point of this that the girl became ashamed of it herself. Now, having made everybody in the house unhappy and having overeaten so that he was now reduced to bread and milk, the state of affairs he had never encountered at the Home, and all novelty having worn off where the nice room and the automobile were concerned, Pearson began to get lonesome and began to find fault. He advised doing things the way they did them at the Home and at last, finding himself very discontented, he just packed up his few belongings and went back.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 30 October 2022.
References: Documentary-Slide : Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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