25 November 1909 Drama 17 mins
A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the brother and prepares to lynch him. Mother intervenes and, to save her son the disgrace of hanging, shoots him.
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Mary Pickford as Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
Owen Moore as The Mountain Girl's Suitor
James Kirkwood as The Mountain Girl's Brother
Kate Bruce as The Mountain Girl's Mother
George Nichols as The Mountain Girl's Father
Arthur V. Johnson as A Traveler From The Valley
Anthony O'Sullivan as The Sheriff
Frank Evans as In Posse
Ruth Hart as Townswoman
Billy Quirk as Townsman
Gertrude Robinson as Townswoman
Mack Sennett as In Posse
Dorothy West as At Dance
D.W. Griffith Director
Billy Bitzer Director of Photography
D.W. Griffith Writer
Frank E. Woods Writer
United States 25 November 1909
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01 July 1909
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15 October 1909
Based on the celebrated novel by Alessandro Manzoni, "The Betrothed", the film tells the passage of Lucia being sent on an errand by the Nun of Monza, her kidnapping at the hands of "the Unnamed", and this man's meeting with the Cardinal Borromeo, whose intercession is key for the liberation of Lucia.
06 May 1909
First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.
04 December 1909
Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves to reform.
10 November 1909
This tragedy depicts a father and son in love with the same woman, who is an enchantress. She keeps them both in subjection with her charms, butthe mother and wife of the victims kills the seducer.
28 June 1909
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and encircling a scene showing school children of 1830 receiving their marks of diligence at a distribution of rewards: then the wreath of bay tendered by the Human Senators to Caesar on the culmination of his career; now a beggar receives a loaf called a "crown" from a charitable passerby: Christ is shown crowned with thorns by the rabble; following the divine drama we see the old comedian's wreath presented him at a performance.
23 July 1909
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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.
16 September 1909
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink.
22 May 1909
"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical Tragedy".
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