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A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
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Carl Brisson
Pete Quilliam
Malcolm Keen
Philip Christian
Anny Ondra
Kate Cregeen
Randle Ayrton
Caesar Cregeen
Clare Greet
Mrs. Cregeen
Kim Peacock
Ross Christian (uncredited)
Nellie Richards
Wardress (uncredited)
Wilfred Shine
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Harry Terry
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Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
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