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The Man He Might Have Been (1913)

A young boy aspires to knowledge and higher education but his father, a plain man with narrow goals, is content with an ordinary school education for him and puts him to work despite the principal's protests. The principal even offers the father an opening by which his son could work during the day and attend school at night throughout a season, but the father declines. Disheartened by the life of drudgery, his father’s decision has wrought he travels the wrong road and goes from hopelessness to recklessness, trapped in an unhappy marriage and a life of hopelessness.

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Top billed cast

Barry O'MooreThe Boy
Mabel TrunnelleThe Boy's Sweetheart
Charles OgleThe Boy's Father
Marc McDermottThe Principal
Bliss MilfordThe Waitress
Elizabeth MillerThe Boy's Mother
Ida WilliamsThe Sweetheart's Mother

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