
Peter Drake meets and falls in love with Jackie Swazey, the daughter of a feisty suffragette and incipient politician. In order to impress her, he agrees to help Mrs Swazey in her campaign to become elected.

H.O. Davis, Bess Meredyth
United States

The year 1917 stands as a watershed moment in the evolution of American cinema, a period where the burgeoning language of film began to articulate the complexities of a nation teetering between Victorian morality and the looming shadows of modernity. Within this crucible, Bringing Home Father emerges not merely as a ...

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William Worthington

William Worthington
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" The year 1917 stands as a watershed moment in the evolution of American cinema, a period where the burgeoning language of film began to articulate the complexities of a nation teetering between Victorian morality and the looming shadows of modernity. Within this crucible, Bringing Home Father emerges not merely as a comedic diversion, but as a biting critique of the period’s socio-political hypocrisies. Directed with a deft hand and written by the legendary Bess Meredyth, the film navigates th..."


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