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The Man He Might Have Been

7.0 20 mins Drama   1913
General Film Company   Edison Studios  
Director(s): Ashley Miller

Release Date: 20 Mon, Jan 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.

Casts of The Man He Might Have Been

Barry O'Moore

as The Boy

Mabel Trunnelle

as The Boy's Sweetheart

Charles Ogle

as The Boy's Father

Marc McDermott

as The Principal

Bliss Milford

as The Waitress

Elizabeth Miller

as The Boy's Mother

Ida Williams

as The Sweetheart's Mother

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