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.
Watch the official The Son's Return 1909 trailer in HD below.
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:
21 September 1909
It's the oldest Brazilian movie that survived and the film that captured the first car race in Brazil.
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.
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.
22 October 1909
Max Linder is an ardent suitor for the hand of a somewhat rampageous young lady. The gentle Max suffers sadly from her rough treatment, but at length he extracts the promise that she will marry him when he has learned to juggle with three balls.
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.
03 May 1909
One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself.
06 May 1909
First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.
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.
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