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A Self-Made Failure
Director: William Beaudine (Dir)
Release Date:   29 Jun 1924
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Cast: Ben Alexander  (Sonny)
  Lloyd Hamilton  (Breezy)
  Matt Moore  (John Steele)
 
Summary: Breezy, a kindly but illiterate tramp, accompanied by a boy, Sonny, and a dog, hops off a freight train in a health resort, and there he is mistaken for a German masseur by a sanitarium proprietor. Breezy discovers that the hotel owner, Cyrus, has stolen the mineral spring from a boardinghouse keeper, and he succeeds in restoring her property to her. 
Distribution Company: Associated First National Pictures
Production Company: J. K. McDonald Productions
Director: William Beaudine (Dir)
Producer: J. K. McDonald (Pres)
Writer: Violet Clark (Scen)
  Lex Neal (Scen)
  John Grey (Scen)
  Tamar Lane (Adpt)
  J. K. McDonald (Story)
Subject Major: Children
  Dogs
  Health resorts
  Masseurs
  Tramps
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