The scenes from the film Prince of Players portray a sequence where the great actor is overdue to give a performance to a restless audience .
In that movie , the character of Granville Thorndyke ( as acted by Alan Mowbray ) is an obvious nod to Booth 's father Junius , and the scenes portray essentially the same sequence where the great actor has be retrieved from a bar and dragged back to the theatre where he is overdue to give a performance in front of a restless audience .
Edwin Booth