The Maniac Cook Trailer (1909)

04 January 1909 Drama, Thriller 9 mins

A household cook named Margie has a sudden mental breakdown and attacks her employers, the Holland family. After being briefly restrained, she escapes the house and later sneaks back in. Driven by a "fiendish idea," she takes the Holland's infant baby from its crib and hides the child in the kitchen oven before starting a fire beneath it. The parents unknowingly begin to use the oven, but the baby is rescued just in time when the parents discover the plot during a struggle with the cook, who is then arrested by police.

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Cast

Anita Hendrie as Margie, the Cook

Marion Leonard as Mrs. Holland

Harry Solter as Mr. Holland

Clara T. Bracy

George Gebhardt as Policeman #1

David Miles

Mack Sennett as Policeman #2

Crew

Billy Bitzer Director of Photography

D.W. Griffith Writer

D.W. Griffith Director

International Releases Dates

United States 04 January 1909

Production Companies

American Mutoscope & Biograph

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