His Trust

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1911.

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1911.

Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master’s daughter after her mother’s death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries…

Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood, his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of his gambling fever.
Young Tom Powers has a wild, irresponsible lifestyle which is condemned by his father but indulged by his well-meaning mother. Tom is pressed to pay his gambling debts, but his father refuses to give him the money. Later, the father…
Poor Hiram didn’t anticipate the trouble laid out for him when he and his wife went for a stroll in the park.

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city’s spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, “Mother, there in the big city is my sphere. There will I turn the world over.”…

A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two separate bands of misinformed revelers) has other ideas.
A Frank Powell film directed by , released in 1910.
Two burglars break into an apartment to rob it. One look at the sleeping daughter of the house, and one of the burglars is so smitten that he forces his companion from the apartment at gunpoint, and resolves to go…

The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is accused of cheating and set to be lynched, but is saved by the girl’s ruse, who later becomes his bride.