A Cry for Help
4.7
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.
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Cast
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Lionel Barrymore
The Tramp
Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
You Can't Take It with You
Lillian Gish
The Maid
Known for
The Night of the Hunter
The Birth of a Nation
Walter Miller
The Doctor
Known for
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Harry Carey
The Thief
Known for
Red River
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Claire McDowell
The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
Known for
The Big Parade
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Robert Harron
Witness to Accident
Known for
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Birth of a Nation
Dorothy Gish
Witness to Accident
Known for
Orphans of the Storm
The Cardinal
Christy Cabanne
Witness to Accident
Also in
The House of Darkness
The Wanderer
John T. Dillon
Policeman / Witness to Accident
Known for
The New Janitor
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Alfred Paget
Policeman
Known for
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
D.W. Griffith Director · Edward Acker Writer
United States release December 23, 1912 · Produced in United States
Production
Biograph Company
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · December 23, 1912
Theatrical
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