Life's a Riot

Young people at risk often have low self esteem. The audiovisual resources help them to express fears, desires and needs. This short film transmitting these thoughts through images and dialogues chosen by the children.

Following a rift with his wealthy father, Billy Mathewson, a young Broadway wastrel, escapes with his friend, Dizzy Durby, to the small town of Salino, where his father's company is building a dam. However, a crooked foreman is engaged in making himself rich at the expense of his employer and the villagers. However, Billy defeats the villain, and also wins Elinor, the daughter of a prominent local resident.

Welcome inside "The Blue Munken", a charming corner bar filled with lovesick dreamers. Here are the artists who never sold a painting, the writers with no books on the shelf and charmers without girls. One day Anita turns up.

God-fearing Dr. Stannard Wayne marries Alice Porn, the former mistress of his friend, unethical Dr. Arthur Richards. When Richards performs an illegal abortion, he makes it look like Wayne is guilty, which gets Wayne sent to prison for five years. He emerges a changed man, a scoffer. By coincidence, he retreats to a village in the Northwest where Richards has gone with Alice. A kind townwoman, Margaret Haddon, urges Wayne to help a boy crippled by a beating from his father, but Wayne refuses. Margaret finally influences Wayne to perform the surgery, but during the operation an angry mob led by Richards descends upon the house. Wayne calls on Heaven for help and, by a miracle, the boy's life is saved and Wayne is deeply moved and his faith is restored.