Summary
A sudden chasm in the Alaskan permafrost swallows Joe Pelton, leaving his boisterous quintet of offspring orphaned on the edge of civilization. Richard Chester, silver-mine Midas and unapologetic lone wolf, inherits both the claim and the kids, hurtling from the savage snowscape to a velvet-lined Pullman sarcophagus where propriety goes to die. Between the clatter of rails and the wails of five pint-sized anarchists, he drags his unwelcome cargo into Manhattan’s marble mausoleum of decorum. The mansion’s hush shatters: porcelain trembles, butlers defect, and a fiancée carved from glacier-ice recoils at the riot. Only Sally Lockwood—quiet stenographer with ink-stained fingers and a lullaby for the fevered baby—threads chaos into cradle, coaxing the bachelor to trade his gilt isolation for the raucous music of family.
Synopsis
After his mining partner Joe Pelton's (MacDonald) death, wealthy bachelor Richard Chester (Thomas Meighan) adopts Joe's five young children and takes them East by train. The children upset the calmness of the passengers of the Pullman car en route to New York City, and when they arrive at Richard's home they drive the servants almost crazy. Richard enrolls them all in school except for the youngest. His fiancee Ethel McVae (Maude Wayne), a frosty society woman, refuses to have anything to do with the children and breaks their engagement when she sees how Richard reacts when his stenographer Sally Lockwood (Leatrice Joy) helps him nurse the youngest child through a night's illness. The secretary wins Richard's love through the baby.
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