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A Cry for Help

Dec 23, 1912 · 17m
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Drama

PLOT

Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.

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CAST

Lionel Barrymore
The Tramp
Lillian Gish
The Maid
Walter Miller
The Doctor
Harry Carey
The Thief
Claire McDowell
The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
Robert Harron
Witness to Accident
Dorothy Gish
Witness to Accident
Christy Cabanne
Witness to Accident
Directed by D.W. Griffith

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Revenue
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Production
Biograph Company
Country
US

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