The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young woman, and they become engaged. Unbeknownst to him this young woman is his own daughter.
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Frank Powell as Ben
Stephanie Longfellow as Ben's Wife
George Nichols as The Farmer
Edith Haldeman as The Daughter (child)
James Kirkwood as The Best Man
Kate Bruce as The Maid
Adele DeGarde as A Child
Gladys Egan as At Church
Anthony O'Sullivan as In Bar
D.W. Griffith Director
D.W. Griffith Writer
Arthur Marvin Cinematography
Billy Bitzer Cinematography
United States 03 January 1910
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1910:
31 March 1910
A young bride wonders at her husband's frequent absences. Suspicion mounts. What can the young man find more alluring than she, herself?
01 March 1910
A detective saves a clerk from a gang who tie him to a clock-operated gun.
04 August 1910
A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her frivolity.
07 March 1910
A mother loses her sanity when she loses her child. Her husband brings home a newly adopted child, and she regains her health.
24 August 1910
Getting his laundry from the Chinaman, "Honest Jim" spruces himself up in preparation to make a call on "Bess," with whom he is in love.
05 March 1910
The film pictures scenes on a big ostrich farm in Southern California, near Los Angeles. A large flock of several hundred of the big birds are seen feeding.
20 September 1910
Young clerk Harry Martin has valuables stolen by the thief Joinville planted on him by that rogue. The cops finding the hot stuff on him arrest Harry and he is sent up the river unjustly.
25 September 1910
A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches.
11 April 1910
Four customers are having a peaceful game of cards in a quiet café. The atmosphere being heavy, the waiter falls asleep and has an unsettling dream about the ills of alcohol, among other things.
09 June 1910
The young husband's irrational jealousy makes him suspicious of every attention bestowed upon his wife.
01 January 1910
A young prince secretly married to a gypsy girl is forced to disclose the fact when his father desires him to marry a wealthy girl.
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