Stumbling into the squalor of her miserable tenement room the woman, a wretched victim of drink and dissipation, sinks down at the table and lights the half-burned candle.
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Lily Branscombe as The Wandering Wife
Frank Dayton as The City Slicker
Harry Cashman as The Unforgiving Husband
United Kingdom 19 January 1913
United States 01 November 1912
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1912:
08 October 1912
Everything is arranged by Dick and his college chums to have their sweethearts from the city, with their chaperone, visit them to spend the day.
24 May 1912
A mad sculptor, searching for the perfect realization of "the mask of horror", places himself in front of a mirror after smearing blood over himself with the glass of an oil lamp.
21 October 1912
Out in the farm-lands near Portland, the Widow Walters lives with her daughter Ethel. As far as affections are concerned, those of the widow are confined to her daughter, until Squire Lang, a fat old widower, with his son Harry, moves onto the adjoining farm.
26 February 1912
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two.
02 February 1912
"Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress" (1912, 14 minutes) is a comedy-drama about yet another girl from the East who doesn't need to be protected from the local dangers.
11 February 1912
The inimitable Billy Quirk needs a wife in order to inherit his vociferous western uncle's fortune. Billy borrows his friend's wife.
04 April 1912
The girl was young, pretty, and also a good businesswoman; When her father died she took up the reins of management and ran an orange grove with successful results.
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