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“The Man of Destiny Gets a Close Shave from a Braggart Barber!”
Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.
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EN

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.

The Barber's Son
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.