A shiftless young farmer (Charles Buck Jones) takes a fatherless infant girl under his wing after he rescues her and her mother from the river, until, years later, his experience of war transforms his feelings for his now adult ward. Abounding with Biblical allusions and echoes of D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East (1920), Lazybones finds director Frank Borzage breathing new energy and life into well-worn narrative conventions.
Production: Fox Film Corp. Distribution: Fox Film Corp. Director: Frank Borzage. Based on the play Lazybones by Owen Davis. Scenario: Frances Marion. Cinematographer: Glen MacWilliams, George Schneiderman. With: Charles Buck Jones, Madge Bellamy, Virginia Marshall, Edythe Chapman, Leslie Fenton. 35mm, b/w, silent, 80 min.
