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Mama's Baby Boy Synopsis
Sid arrives home from college, meets father and mother. Lot of gags where he kisses baggage men in excitement and shades hands with man giving traffic signal, copy, etc. Takes family home in Ford and sees girl and falls out of oar. Dogs and chickens rush to greet him at home and a lot of fun at supper table. Goes out to get a chicken for dinner but has tough time, chasing hen up street. In pool room his worthless brother playing pool. Goose lays egg on table in place of ball-egg hit by cue lands in eye of village slicker. Gang beats up brother. Sid tries to get him home through window with rope. Girl appears. Brother revives and drags Sid from upper window. Lot of mishaps and he finally takes the family and girl away happily in the car.
An Amateur Devil Synopsis
Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.
"Mama's Baby Boy" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "An Amateur Devil" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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