A Change of Heart

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent seaside fun becomes a struggle against a maniac on the water.
Henry is being blackmailed. When the blackmailer breaks into his house, Henry apprehends him at gunpoint and takes the opportunity to rid himself of the blackmailer’s threat.
A court fool believes the Duke is after his beautiful daughter, and arranges to have the Duke murdered. The daughter overhears the plot and, disguised in the Duke’s cloak, sacrifices her life to save him.

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but…
Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman’s house in order to steal a photograph. The young woman catches him and has him arrested, but he is released…

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director’s interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family.
To help a woman whose purse has been snatched, two college boys stage a murder scene and trap the purse snatcher.

A Gilbert M. Anderson film directed by , released in 1908.
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the crowd in this film produced by the Biograph Company.