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In His Brother's Place

  • Comedy
  • Drama

July 14, 1919 (US)

0h 50m

They were twins but you wouldn't know it. One was a successful business man. See what happened when the financier took the preacher's place.

Twins Nelson and J. Barrington Drake return home for the celebration of their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Barrington is a wealthy oilman, but Nelson is a pastor in a small rural church, who is struggling to increase his ever-shrinking flock, Barrington tells him that his p...

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