This Universal two-reeler, "Discontent," was written but apparently not directed by Lois Weber. Credit, including on Shelley Stamp's Weber filmography, which I'll take over any other internet databases on the matter, and on the credits for the print presented on the Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology set goes to Allen Siegler, whoever he was, as director. Regardless, Weber provides us with a screwy moral for this one. A Civil War veteran and part-time curmudgeon moves in with his millionaire nephew and his family. This leads to the discontent, as the old man sows doubt in the decisions of the family, and he misses his life at the elderly veterans' home. Whoever made this film it seems as though they made it to excuse their being wealthy while putting their elderly relatives in the poor house of retirement facilities. Money can't buy you happiness--that's just nonsense that rich Hollywood filmmakers tell the masses attending their movies.
