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0.0Knocked 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.
Released: 1912-12-2317 minDir: D.W. GriffithDrama
Cast
- Lionel Barrymore as The Tramp
- Lillian Gish as The Maid
- Walter Miller as The Doctor
- Harry Carey as The Thief
- Claire McDowell as The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
- Robert Harron as Witness to Accident
Themes
- silent film
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- short film
- Genre
- silent film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Director
- D. W. Griffith
- Cast member
- Harry Carey
- Production company
- Biograph Company
- Cinematographer
- Billy Bitzer
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- publication date
- 1912-01-01
- title
- A Cry for Help
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- General Film Company
- copyright status
- public domain
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