For His Mother's Sake

For His Mother's Sake is a 1922 American silent film, starring heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson.

[2] It is believed there was only one five reel print of the movie, due to the studio owners seizing the negative when the film's producers failed to pay their bills.

[2] Johnson's character in the film flees to Mexico after taking the blame for a crime committed by his brother.

Johnson has been described as demonstrating, in this film, in As the World Rolls On, and through his prizefighting, "to a generation of African-American male youth that athletics was one of the few ways out of the ghetto or off the sharecropper's farm.

"[4] Mattie Wilkes portrayed Johnson's mother in the sentimental melodrama about a man taking the blame for his brother's crime.