Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.
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Frank Coghlan Jr.
Tad
Louis Wolheim
Slag
Philippe De Lacy
Eddie
Anita Louise
Mary Jane
C. Montague Shaw
Cartwright
Maurice Black
Hook
Kewpie Morgan
Delicate Don (as Allen Morgan)
Clarence Geldart
Commandant
Ray Erlenborn
Cadet (uncredited)
Billy Lord
Cadet (uncredited)
Kenneth McMillan
Cadet (uncredited)
Edwin Mills
Cadet (uncredited)
Dean Riesner
Cadet (uncredited)
Matty Roubert
Newsboy (uncredited)
Byron Sage
Cadet (uncredited)
