An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her.
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Adele DeGarde as The Child
Charles Inslee as The Gambler
Anita Hendrie as The Mother
Owen Moore as The Good Samaritan
Marion Leonard as Reveller
Linda Arvidson as Reveller
Mack Sennett as Gambler / Reveller
Dorothy West as Reveller
United States 22 February 1909
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The Golden Louis is a 1909 short drama film written and directed by Griffith. An old woman sends a girl begging in the streets of Paris on a snowy evening.
Silent Film: The Golden Louis (1909 Griffith) The Golden Louis is a 1909 short drama film written and directed by Griffith.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
17 June 1909
Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her.
01 January 1909
Max at an evening party takes a necklace from one of the guests and makes good his escape. The guests and the police set out in pursuit but Max employs some novel methods and among others mounts a boat on the water chute and finally makes good his escape in a balloon which soars far out of reach of his would-be captors.
19 February 1909
A young sailor dozes off in the grass in Frederiksberg Have and wakes up surrounded by supernatural fairylike creatures.
14 October 1909
One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.
20 September 1909
Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured as a spy for the South, but escapes and hides in his parents' house.
09 July 1909
The King and his official astronomer are alone in the study viewing the heavenly bodies through the monstrous telescope.
31 December 1909
Illustrates a man's struggle to overcome an inherited love for drink. Although yet a young man, the enemy of his family had already sunk its claws firmly upon James Grant.
27 February 1909
Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star.
30 August 1909
Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.
18 November 1909
Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order to steal a photograph.
07 September 1909
At a house party, people are dancing.... but one of the guests slips away from his accomplice to go break open a locked cabinet and steal money.
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