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0.5A household cook named Margie has a sudden mental breakdown and attacks her employers, the Holland family. After being briefly restrained, she escapes the house and later sneaks back in. Driven by a "fiendish idea," she takes the Holland's infant baby from its crib and hides the child in the kitchen oven before starting a fire beneath it. The parents unknowingly begin to use the oven, but the baby is rescued just in time when the parents discover the plot during a struggle with the cook, who is then arrested by police.
Released: 1909-01-049 minDir: D.W. GriffithDrama, Thriller
Cast
- Anita Hendrie as Margie, the Cook
- Marion Leonard as Mrs. Holland
- Harry Solter as Mr. Holland
- Clara T. Bracy
- George Gebhardt as Policeman #1
- David Miles
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- short film
- Genre
- silent film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Director
- D. W. Griffith
- Screenwriter
- D. W. Griffith
- Cast member
- Mack Sennett
- Production company
- Biograph Company
- Cinematographer
- Billy Bitzer
- Duration
- 9
- Image
- Film still from 1909 Biograph release The Maniac Cook.jpg
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- publication date
- 1909-01-01
- title
- The Maniac Cook
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- color
- black-and-white
- copyright status
- public domain
- Commons category
- The Maniac Cook
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