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The Power of the Weak (1926)

The Power of the Weak (1926)
Silent-film leading lady Alice Calhoun always tried hard, but she was defeated by the "B"-grade melodramas in which she usually found herself. In Power of the Weak, Calhoun plays Mary, the young owner of a thriving lumber camp. When a shipment of lumber fails to arrive on time, young logger Raymond (Carl Miller) is blamed, whereupon the enraged Mary lets him have it with a bull-whip (this woman definitely needs to hire an employee-relations expert!) Instead of whimpering in pain, Raymond emerges from his whipping determined to prove his manhood by capturing the Benedict Arnold responsible for sabotaging the lumber shipment. After surviving a train explosion, Raymond gets his man and demands an apology from Mary -- who, by now, has fallen in love with the boy. Perhaps wisely, the director of Power of the Weak declined to take on-screen credit. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Starring:
Alice CalhounCarl Miller, (more)
Director(s):
William James Craft
 
 
 
 

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Silent-film leading lady Alice Calhoun always tried hard, but she was defeated by the "B"-grade melodramas in which she usually found herself. In Power of the Weak, Calhoun plays Mary, the young owner of a thriving lumber camp. When a shipment of lumber fails to arrive on time, young logger Raymond (Carl Miller) is blamed, whereupon the enraged Mary lets him have it with a bull-whip (this woman definitely needs to hire an employee-relations expert!) Instead of whimpering in pain, Raymond emerges from his whipping determined to prove his manhood by capturing the Benedict Arnold responsible for sabotaging the lumber shipment. After surviving a train explosion, Raymond gets his man and demands an apology from Mary -- who, by now, has fallen in love with the boy. Perhaps wisely, the director of Power of the Weak declined to take on-screen credit. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Director(s):
William James Craft
Writer(s):
Wyndham Gittens
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