A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.
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Mary Pickford as Mary
Herbert Prior as The Father
Charles West as Will
Anita Hendrie as The Mother
Harry Solter as The Employer
Charles Avery as Extra
Arthur V. Johnson as On Stairs / In Bank
David Miles as Neighbor
Owen Moore as On Stairs / In Bank
Anthony O'Sullivan as Creditor
Mack Sennett as Creditor / Neighbor
D.W. Griffith Director
D.W. Griffith Screenplay
Billy Bitzer Director of Photography
Guy de Maupassant Novel
Arthur Marvin Cinematography
United States 14 June 1909
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
16 May 1909
Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Romeo resorts to extreme measures.
01 July 1909
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
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.
08 December 1909
Documentary about making cheese in the Netherlands.
12 December 1909
Invited by Duke Alfonso II to the court of Ferrara to read his poems, the poet Torquato Tasso finds himself at the center of court intrigue because of his secret love for the Duke’s sister, Eleanora d’Este.
19 July 1909
Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from the city.
16 September 1909
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink.
04 December 1909
Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the Deliverance of the Hebrews, The Victory of Israel, The Promised Land), 4 December 1909 to 19 February 1910.
21 September 1909
It's the oldest Brazilian movie that survived and the film that captured the first car race in Brazil.
19 February 1909
A young sailor dozes off in the grass in Frederiksberg Have and wakes up surrounded by supernatural fairylike creatures.
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