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A Cry for Help
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.
Cast
- Lionel Barrymore as The Tramp
- Lillian Gish as The Maid
- Walter Miller as The Doctor
- Harry Carey as The Thief
- Claire McDowell as The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
- Robert Harron as Witness to Accident
- Dorothy Gish as Witness to Accident
- Christy Cabanne as Witness to Accident
- John T. Dillon as Policeman / Witness to Accident
- Alfred Paget as Policeman
Details
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Released
- December 23, 1912
- Runtime
- 17m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- Biograph Company
- Status
- Released
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