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Barry's Breaking In (1913)
Short | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Barry's Breaking In (1913)

Short | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Barry Remsen is a fine specimen of the idle rich youth of today. His father realizes this, but sees no way of making the boy really of value. One day he happens to think of Bennett, the eccentric millionaire inventor, who works in his own ...See moreBarry Remsen is a fine specimen of the idle rich youth of today. His father realizes this, but sees no way of making the boy really of value. One day he happens to think of Bennett, the eccentric millionaire inventor, who works in his own laboratory with his men and who has no use for idleness in his house or his life. He sends Barry with a note to this man, asking him to break the boy in, Barry of course does not know the contents of the note, but he does know that Bennett has a remarkably pretty little daughter, whom he will be very glad to see again. Bennett tells him to come back for an answer to the note in three days. Barry comes, but more to see the girl than to get an answer, and again is put off. He manages to meet the girl at church, and finally, after a very brief courtship, proposes to her and is told to ask papa. Bennett, of course, has been waiting for this, and tells the boy that he has no use for idlers. He intimates, however, that if the boy really wants the girl he had better take off his coat and go to work. Much to his surprise, Barry takes up this offer, pulls off his coat and starts to work. Bennett and the other men put him through the hardest "stunts" that they can find to toughen him up, while the girl looks on, with her heart aching for him. He sleeps on a cot in the workshop, and when he is late for work goes without breakfast. But he does harden up and toughen up to the job and begins to be of some value, and then one day an explosion takes place in the laboratory, and as the men run for the fire department and for the boss Barry realizes that one of the number is in the inner room, in danger of suffocation by the gases, and he goes into the room to rescue the man. He is overcome himself and dragged out by the foreman when he returns, but as soon as he comes to he tells them why he was in there and, breaking from them, dashes into the smoke and flames again. This time he and the superintendent succeed in bringing out the man alive, and Barry drops in a heap on the floor, the girl on her knees beside him. After the firemen have gone Bennett starts to congratulate the boy, but the little girl will not allow him to speak to the lad because her father has allowed him to go into danger, and without reason. Then Bennett produces the letter, hands it to them and the two young people see that this has been the process of his breaking in and has made a man of him. Of course they forgive the old father. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Marc McDermott Remsen - Barry's Father Remsen - Barry's Father See fewer	He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Barry O'Moore Barry Remsen Barry Remsen See fewer	Frederick the Great (1914)
Charles Ogle Bennett - an Eccentric Inventor Bennett - an Eccentric Inventor See fewer	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
Bessie Learn Bennett's Daughter Bennett's Daughter See fewer	In the Shadow of Death (1915)