“A pathetic story of mother’s grief. No more intense emotion can be imagined than a mother’s grief for her dead child. and this Biograph subject beautifully portrays a story of maternal bereavement. It also shows the seemingly cruel workings of…
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.
Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary’s sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary and leaves her newborn daughter motherless. Luke offers to raise the daughter. Years later…
Marie has two suitors. She accepts Victor and rejects Tony, who stabs Victor in a fit of jealousy. When he learns that Victor is still alive, he breaks into the room in Marie’s house where Victor is convalescing and attacks…
Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured as a spy for the South, but escapes and hides in his parents’ house. George leads the search party, but doesn’t reveal his brother’s hiding…
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he’s supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he’s faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would…
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.
Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she’s coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister’s apartment, she comes face to face with her misdeeds.
While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong medicine, and desperately tries to contact her daughter before it’s too late.
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