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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 8, 1925

Runtime

1h 1m

Genres

Drama

User Score

50%

Original Title

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation

Director

Frank Borzage

Description

Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he foregoes his artistic calling and draws for magazines. Reaching his limits, Julian convinces his wife he could reach higher grounds if he were to go to Paris. He moves to Paris while his Edith works at a shop on Fifth Avenue. Each of their lives evolves differently—Edith is courted by a wealthy suitor whom she ignores while pining for her husband, while Julian fails to meet his goals in Paris, returning defeated three years later. The meeting highlight how different their routes have been.