A Cry for Help

D.W. Griffith
1912-12-23


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17 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Lionel Barrymore The Tramp Unowned
Lillian Gish The Maid Unowned
Walter Miller The Doctor Unowned
Harry Carey The Thief Unowned
Claire McDowell The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient Unowned
Robert Harron Witness to Accident Unowned
Dorothy Gish Witness to Accident Unowned
Christy Cabanne Witness to Accident Unowned
John T. Dillon Policeman / Witness to Accident Unowned
Alfred Paget Policeman Unowned