Son of a Hobo

 

This is an original screenplay which depicts political and social life in the South during the Great Depression days. It is the story of a farm boy who married a judge's daughter. Before becoming a judge, the man had been a hobo.  As such, the judge unknowingly became the illegitimate father of the boy. But if the judge had know that fact, it might not have caused him to oppose the marriage. The judge had molested his daughter from day one. At the time of her marriage, she was pregnant with the judge's child. Yet we learn the judge was not actually his daughter's male progenitor. The man who raised the boy was her male progenitor!

The facts start coming to light when the teenager's child needs an organ transplant. Searching for the right donor broke open a big barrel of bad apples, filled with many worms. But as the story progresses, the sordid past is blown even wider when the judge gets assassinated. The boy gets blamed for the murder and is put on trial. At the trial, the girl's mother brandishes a pistol. Holding the entire court as hostage, she confesses that she and the judge presiding over the trial are the real culprits. But the baliff's attempt to unarm her results in an even greater tragedy.

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