With this film the young Fairbanks Jr. opted for a screen career despite opposition from his famous actor father, Douglas Fairbanks.
"I was terribly chubby," recalled Fairbanks Jr. "Did it for the money. When my parents separated, it was hardly amicable and mother and I needed to eat. Movie companies were willing to exploit my famous name. I didn't really understand that at the time."[2]
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,[3] the young son of a wealthy American fails his class in history at school, so he is sent to Turkey to learn the subject firsthand on the premises. He learns that the instructor who flunked him in his exam at school is to be dismissed for it, and he intervenes and gets the school board to retain the man, having first obtained for him a decoration from the Sultan.
↑"Tried and Proven Pictures: Stephen Steps Out". Exhibitors Trade Review. New York, NY: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 40. May 3, 1924. Retrieved November 28, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
