A Cry for Help (1912)

A Cry for Help

1912

Drama

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 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.

Credits

Director

D.W. Griffith

Cast

Alfred Paget as Policeman

Christy Cabanne as Witness to Accident

Claire McDowell as The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient

Dorothy Gish as Witness to Accident

Harry Carey as The Thief

John T. Dillon as Policeman / Witness to Accident

Lillian Gish as The Maid

Lionel Barrymore as The Tramp