One Man's Journey

Doctor Eli Watt is a widower who comes to a small town. He thinks he failed to build a career of any meaning in New York and counts himself a failure. In the town he raises his son Jimmy. He also takes in Letty, whose mother died in childbirth and whose father blamed Watt and abandoned the child. Watt dreams of going back to research, but something always gets in the way. Sometimes an epidemic, sometimes what his children need. Often enough it is the patients themselves. As the years pass he comes to see that his past was not as empty as he had thought. Lionel Barrymore and May Robson appear in John S. Robertson’s American film of 1933, seventy two minutes long.