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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 603

Poor Daddy

192971 minChina

Synopsis

A timid father and his young son live under the thumb of a domineering second wife. When her lover commits a crime and tries to make the husband take the blame, the boy must act. Domestic slapstick gives way to a rescue adventure in which the smallest member of the family proves the most resourceful.

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Video edition: Internet Archive
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Chinese.
This copy runs: 71:25
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Chinese. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Internet Archive · Yang Xiaozhong, Chen Zhiqing, Sun Yu · Public domain (PDM)

Cast

Zhang Zhede

Liu Jiqun

Xu Jingzhen

Hong Jingling

DirectorsYang Xiaozhong

Behind the scenes

The original English title is Poor Daddy; the film is also known as The Heroic Son. Its bilingual title cards and elaborate physical stunts connect family melodrama with the international vocabulary of silent comedy.

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Chinese Film Classics Wikimedia Commons · copyright reference China · Copyright Law, Article 23 US Copyright Office · foreign works Wikimedia Commons · film copy

Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 11, 2026.

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