In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing ...
a gangster (Robert Sterling) hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter (Marsha Hunt).
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments moxia.cc usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.