A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
Watch the official The Dream 1911 trailer in HD below.
Mary Pickford as Nell Herbert
Owen Moore as Will Herbert
Charles Arling as The Dream Man (uncredited)
William Robert Daly as Secondary Role (uncredited)
J. Farrell MacDonald as Secondary Role (uncredited)
Lottie Pickford as Bess - the Typewriter (uncredited)
Thomas H. Ince Director
Carl Laemmle Producer
Ernesto Nazareth Original Music Composer
Herbert Brenon Scenario Writer
United States 23 January 1911
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1911:
02 October 1911
A lost film. Gerald Kinney is a man with plenty of money and wild excesses. one day he leaves his club and motors out into the country.
23 February 1911
Bob Ford, a young college graduate and a man-about-town, self-willed and wild, who tries his father's patience and generosity by going the limit, is called to a sudden halt by the old gentleman and sent out west with his valet to work on Jones' ranch in Texas and prove to his father that he is not a hopeless renegade.
18 May 1911
A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example.
04 September 1911
A white woodsman rescues Little Dove from danger on two occasions and she crushes out on him... but wiser heads prevail.
25 December 1911
She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.
13 March 1911
Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.
09 May 1911
The construction of a new railroad, designed to bring prosperity to a section of the country, brings sorrow to one home.
26 September 1911
The “gallant young Lochinvar” and his stolen bride lead their pursuers on a merry chase
31 August 1911
A lost film. Dan Gardner, a young man, is down and out. Arrested as a tramp, he is thrown into jail. He is released with but a single coin in his pocket.
01 March 1911
George Petit, the son of a bank cashier is a heavy gambler. After losing a significant amount of money at cards, he becomes desperate to recover his losses.
28 December 1911
While painting the demure little model, Vera, who sat for him day after day, Reginald Spencer was unconscious of the fact that she was falling very deeply in love with him.
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