Drama
In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.
Directed by
Henry King
Written by
Tom Barry, Jules Furthman
Ward Bond
Detective Escort (uncredited)
Billy Barty
Shelby Boy (uncredited)
Mae Marsh
Ma Shelby
James Dunn
Johnny Shelby as an Adult
Olin Howland
Isaac as an Adult
Eula Guy
Minnie, Isaac's Wife
Sally Eilers
Isabel Potter as an Adult
William Pawley
Ben Adams, Susan's Husband
James Kirkwood
Pa Shelby in Prologue
Tommy Conlon
Johnny Shelby in Prologue
Douglas Walton
Stephen
Marilyn Harris
Susan Shelby in Prologue
Joan Peers
Susan as an Adult
David Hartford
Bill Collector
Edward Crandall
Thomas as an Adult
Claire Maynard
Phyllis Shelby, Johnny's Wife
Joe Hachey
Isaac Shelby in Prologue
Julius Molnar
Thomas Shelby in Prologue
Nancy Irish
Isabel Potter in Prologue
George H. Reed
Les, Wagon Driver

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