The Son's Return

There's this one very cliché morality play melodrama plot where a desperate man unwittingly attempts to burglarize the home of his greatest benefactor, and then repents on realizing what he'd done. Griffith, corny fellow that he was, used it quite a lot. Here, we get a bizarre new spin on it, as an old man unwittingly attempts to murder his own son, who came to help him out. Oh well, at least we get a young Pickford frolicking outside along the way.