Trifling with Honor (1923)
Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living,
Director: Harry A. Pollard
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Rockliffe Fellowes as Gas-Pipe Kid / Bat Shugrue |
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Fritzi Ridgeway as Ida Hunt |
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Buddy Messinger as Jimmy Hunt |
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Hayden Stevenson as Kelsey Lewis |
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Emmett King as Judge Drury |
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William Welsh as Warden |
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Fred R. Stanton as Lute Clotz |
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William Robert Daly as The Kid's Father |
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Jim Farley as Murray Jessop |
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Sidney De Gray as Dud Adams |
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John Hatton as Jimmy (at 8 years) |
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Mike Gaffner as Landlord |
| Directing | Harry A. Pollard | Director |
| Camera | John W. Brown | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Frank S. Beresford | Scenario Writer |
| Writing | Raymond L. Schrock | Adaptation |
| Writing | William Slavens McNutt | Story |