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A Cry for Help

A Cry for Help

1912Short⏱️ 17m
ShortDrama
5.2
IMDB Rating
52 votes

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 i...

Director
D.W. Griffith
Writers
N/A
Stars
Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Walter Miller
Release Date
December 23, 1912
Language
None, English
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
as The Tramp
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
as The Maid
Walter Miller
Walter Miller
as The Doctor
Harry Carey
Harry Carey
as The Thief
Claire McDowell
Claire McDowell
as The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
Robert Harron
Robert Harron
as Witness to Accident
Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Gish
as Witness to Accident
Christy Cabanne
Christy Cabanne
as Witness to Accident
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John T. Dillon
as Policeman
Alfred Paget
Alfred Paget
as Policeman

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
New York City, New York, USA
Production
Biograph Company

🎯 Categories

DramaShort

⭐ Featured Review

Lengthens out the suspense in a probable, convincing and semi-humorous way
by deickemeyer2017-04-20

"This picture has a dramatic climax that is fresh enough, but that reminds us of several other Biograph offerings; it is a picture with a struggle between an unarmed man, on one side of a door, and a madman with a pistol, on the other. Its freshness comes from the trouble a tramp, whom he had befriended, has in rescuing him. A policeman seeing this rough looking man climbing in a window, hinders him and lengthens out the suspense in a probable, convincing and semi-humorous way that is very entertaining. There are three chief characters and, for more than half the film, these kept appearing with..."

📖 Synopsis

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 i...