The Girls and Daddy

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy’s money.

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy’s money.

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors…
John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and convinces him to jilt her at the altar.

A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?
A young female teacher is assigned to an unruly class. After a student revolt, a passing surveyor helps her restore order, and the teacher becomes interested in him. Soon she learns that he has a wife. Dave, an older pupil,…

Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple’s home. They save his life by disguising him as a servant, but he soon…
“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.