A Man of Sorrow is a lost 1916 drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring William Farnum. Oscar Apfel directed and wrote the scenario based on a play, Hoodman Blind, by Wilson Barrett.
The same material was remade by John Ford in 1923 called by the title of its source material Hoodman Blind.
Pat Winthrop se fiance avec Bob Shelby, un sudiste qui possède Kentucky Boy, un cheval inscrit au Nassau Handicap. Pour éviter que son père n'aille en prison, Pat rompt plus tard ses fiançailles avec Bob et accepte la proposition de Darrell Thornton. Bob doit de l'argent à Thornton et, la veille du handicap, Thornton attache Kentucky Boy. Bob vole le cheval dans son box et le jockey de Bob le conduit à la victoire. Le prix gagné sauve le père de Pat de prison et permet à Bob de rembourser Thornton. Pat et Bob se marient.
, 1h14 Directed byOscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille OriginUSA GenresDrama, Melodrama, Western ThemesThéâtre, Films based on plays ActorsDustin Farnum, Red Wing, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston, Cecil B. DeMille, Hal Roach Rating57% James Wynnegate (Dustin Farnum) and his cousin, Henry (Monroe Salisbury), upper class Englishmen, have been made trustees for an orphans’ fund. Henry loses money in a bet at a derby and embezzles money from “the fund” to pay off his debts. When war office officials are informed of the money missing from “the fund”, they pursue James, but he successfully escapes to Wyoming. In Wyoming, James rescues Nat-U-Rich (Lillian St. Cyr), daughter to the chief of the Utes tribe, from local outlaw Cash Hawkins (William Elmer). Cash plans on exacting his revenge on James but has his plans thwarted by Nat-U-Ritch who fatally shoots him. Later, James gets into an accident in the mountains and needs to be rescued. Nat-U-Ritch tracks him down and carries him back to safety. As she nurses him back to health, they become lovers and have a child. During an exploration in the Alps, Henry falls off a cliff. Before he succumbs to his injuries, Henry signs a letter of confession proclaiming James’ innocence in the embezzlement. Before Henry's widow Lady Diana (Winifred Kingston) and others arrive at James and Nat-U-Ritch’s residence in Wyoming to tell James about the news, the Sheriff recovers the murder weapon that was used against Cash Hawkins inside of the couples’ residence. Nat-U-Rich, facing the possibilities of losing both her son and her freedom, decides to take her own life.