Gordon Malherbe Hillman

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. (imdb)

Young Englishman (Greene) meets his real father (Dix) in America, a former alcoholic. They both grow in getting know one another. (imdb)